Crypto Guru Says "Bitcoin Will Hit $1,000,000 by…"

Dropping Bombs

Brad Lea

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 98 minutes

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This episode was sponsored by Collective Shift

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In this unfiltered Dropping Bombs episode, high school dropout turned crypto millionaire CEO Ben Simpson shares his wild ride from $120K loss to $1M/month revenue empire. As founder of Collective Shift—partnered with Coinbase and Swyftx—he built a research-first platform that never takes paid promotions.

Ben breaks down spotting real opportunities and his 7-step starter guide, plus why Bitcoin will hit $1 million in the next decade. Learn token economics, smart exit strategies, and lending hacks wealthy investors use to cash flow without selling.

With a global TEDx talk and mission to democratize crypto for busy pros—whether you're new or refining your strategy—this is your blueprint to stop getting wrecked and start building real generational wealth. Press play to level up.

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0:00.0	I believe Bitcoin will be, I think it would get to $1 million in the next 10 years.
0:02.9	And why wouldn't you put every dime you have into Bitcoin?
0:05.4	I do.
0:05.8	So, like, there's people right now thinking, well, I miss Bitcoin when in reality, it's going to go 10 X.
0:10.6	That's the biggest problem.
0:11.4	Because people are always looking for the next best thing.
0:13.0	You could buy it and then tell everyone, hey, this is a good trade.
0:15.5	And it goes up and you dump it.
0:16.8	Correct. And that's what, guess what everyone online influences? That's what they're doing. That's what they're doing. That's why 95, 98% of people in crypto lose money is because they're just getting screwed. That should be illegal. 100% of shouldn't. We had a guy, Bill, not a big crypto guy, and he bought Trump Coin. When Trump Coin came out, made $120,000, I believe in a day or two days, you don't need to pay tax when you lend against your Bitcoin. That's
0:37.5	what the wealthy do. They have property, they have stocks, they lend against it to cash flow,
0:41.1	and they don't have to sell it. Then I pay tax. Bitcoin is that asset. So let's talk about
0:44.8	how do you make money in crypto right now? Totally. So I would...
0:50.3	What it is, Brad Lee back again with another episode of dropping bombs. Today in the studio, folks, you wanted to know about crypto. So I went out and got a treat for you. Ben Simpson sitting here today, folks. What's up, Ben? Oh, you mind. Thank you for having me. Dude, if you guys don't know this guy, Ben Simpson, A.U. on Instagram, Ben Simpson, A.U. on X and Twitter. His podcast is Ben and Berg's,
1:13.7	his YouTube with massive amounts of followers. Ben Collective Shift at Ben Collective Shift.
1:19.2	You guys probably already know who he is. Ben is basically the founder and CEO of Collective Shift.
1:25.9	Tasmanian High School dropout at 17, turned
1:29.1	crypto millionaire by his early 20s, lost 120 dimes on a single trade, nearly went bankrupt
1:35.8	before building collective shift to over a million dollar a month in revenue.
1:39.8	Thousand-plus members raised a couple million bucks in funding partnered with coin base coin spot swift
1:46.9	x yep tedx speaker and the rest is history after all that democratized crypto education and
1:56.7	help time poor professionals build generational wealth that's awesome buddy how did you get into
2:03.2	crypto so young and earlier you're only 26 yeah 26 um yeah well first of all thanks for having me
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