{"id":577623,"date":"2026-04-02T04:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/genius-group-liquidates-bitcoin-treasury-to-pay-8-5m-of-debt\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:54:20","slug":"genius-group-liquidates-bitcoin-treasury-to-pay-8-5m-of-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/genius-group-liquidates-bitcoin-treasury-to-pay-8-5m-of-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Genius Group liquidates Bitcoin treasury to pay $8.5M of debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDQvMDE5ZDRiZWUtYWZiOS03NTczLTkzZDYtODQwNTU2NzczNWU2LmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Genius Group liquidates Bitcoin treasury to pay $8.5M of debt\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The AI and crypto company has added to a pattern of Bitcoin treasuries offloading this year, with Michael Saylor&#8217;s Strategy bucking that trend.<\/p>\n<p>AI-powered Bitcoin treasury and education company Genius Group revealed on Tuesday that it sold the remainder of its Bitcoin in Q1 to pay off debt, adding to a recent wave of companies offloading assets amid a crypto bear market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company will recommence building its Bitcoin Treasury when it believes market conditions are more favorable,\u201d it stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The move appears to go against its \u201cBitcoin first\u201d strategy, which it touted in November 2024, vowing at the time to commit 90% or more of its current and future reserves to be held in Bitcoin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/genius-group-triples-revenue-but-liquidates-entire-bitcoin-stash\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI and crypto company has added to a pattern of Bitcoin treasuries offloading this year, with Michael Saylor&#8217;s Strategy bucking that trend. AI-powered Bitcoin treasury and education company Genius Group revealed on Tuesday that it sold the remainder of its Bitcoin in Q1 to pay off debt, adding to a recent wave of companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":577624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-577623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}