It occurs first very slowly, then all at once.

American architect, inventor and futurist Buckminster Fuller once described the modern era of humanity as the “Final Exam.” To Fuller, this exam is not like the graded coursework that one would experience at a university, but instead a critical period in human existence where we will inevitably choose to exist in a utopia or cease to exist entirely. Though no letter grade exists within the Final Exam, Fuller detailed a clear path toward “passing into” utopia: Abandon technological selfishness for the collective use of technology to provide for everyone.

Bitcoin: The manifestation of Fuller’s vision

In 2008, a few decades after Fuller’s passing, Satoshi Nakamoto detailed the economic manifestation of this same test. As a neutral, mathematically enforced coordination layer, Bitcoin allows for the trustless collaboration of humanity at infinite scale. Open-sourced and untethered to the central banks and nation states that control fiat currency, Bitcoin presented an opportunity for humanity to truly play through Fuller’s “World Game” and lead to a solution to pass the Final Exam.

At around the same time, social entrepreneur and futurist Roger James Hamilton was hard at work developing a solution to the Final Exam through the creation of the Wealth Dynamics system. Over the course of two decades Hamilton’s fundamental positioning as a futurist and coexistence with Bitcoin has culminated into Genius Group: a Bitcoin-first education collective powered by AI and listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Toppling educational barriers with AI

Genius Group’s mission is as unapologetically expansive as it needs to be to successfully pass Fuller’s test: provide today’s organizations, students and entrepreneurs the necessary tools to coexist in the modern economy through the marriage of AI tools and an open monetary standard. Through organized, continuous learning communities, Hamilton’s Genius Group is maximizing abundance to further collaboration.

One of Genius Group’s core principles is education, and GeniusU provides both a marketplace and real-world environment for educational communities that reward value creation and borderless exchange of information in the modern age. Just as AI breaks down barriers to entry usually “required” of an entrepreneur, it also creates an abundance of information needed to progress through the World Game.

Today, Genius Group serves 5.8 million users in over 100 countries through its Genius City model and online digital marketplace of AI training, tools and talent. Genius Cities, which act as global campuses for innovation, are on the rise. Earlier this month, Genius Group opened up the flagship Genius City Bali, marked by the inaugural Genius Future Summit held October 2-3. Genius Cities have opened up in Singapore and Dubai, with additional plans to further globalize the Genius City movement in the near future.

With personalized, entrepreneurial AI pathways and an active community, Genius Group is combining human ingenuity and AI solutions to establish an educational foundation for the next generation of humanity.

Genius Group’s Bitcoin treasury: From competition to collaboration

As a Bitcoin-first education company, Genius Group isn’t limited in its goals to what it can offer others. Through a core belief that Bitcoin is an integral tool to work through the World Game, Genius Group is also able to directly contribute alongside its community by establishing itself as a Bitcoin treasury company.

During the Bitcoin Investor Day event at Paris Blockchain Week, Hamilton said that establishing Genius Group as a Bitcoin treasury company is a “shift from competition to collaboration.” In making efforts to purchase BTC, Genius Group is not only supporting other treasury companies but also joining the coalition of many that view Bitcoin as a transparent, value distribution system of universal consensus.

Genius Group already holds a treasury of 200 BTC, but that’s just the beginning. In a recent SEC filing, Genius Group revised its Bitcoin Treasury target from 1,000 BTC to 10,000 BTC – a 10-times increase in its impact on the total BTC supply. Through funding options available to the company, including At-The-Market facility (ATM), debt financing, low-cost convertible bonds, fixed-income preferred shares and funding from its operating business, Genius Group has set its target on acquiring this ambitious treasury target within the next one to two years.

Bitcoin Treasury Month: Proof of educational work

As a sponsor of CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Treasury Month, Genius Group is stepping up to be a visible proponent of Bitcoin and the future of humanity in a post-Final Exam society. At the same time, it continues to serve as a collective community of organized mentors, pairing AI and human skills to eliminate the barriers surrounding entrepreneurship and open work. While Hamilton’s longstanding work as a futurist has pushed us toward an open, collaborative society, Genius Group’s decision to become a Bitcoin Treasury company with 10,000 BTC serves as proof of “skin in the game” and the belief that Bitcoin is an integral tool in solving Buckminster Fuller’s World Game.

As technology advances, so does the opportunity to abandon technological selfishness for the collective use of technology to provide for everyone. First slowly, then all at once.