I Spoke at the Biggest Crypto Conference in Australia

Ben Simpson documents his behind-the-scenes experience speaking at Australia’s largest crypto conference in Sydney (Oz Crypto Con). He covers arriving at the booth with his team, the size and energy of the crowd, technical hiccups before a main-stage keynote, and a live strategy presentation focused on portfolio construction for the bull market. Interspersed are market views: Bitcoin near $99,000 (hoping for $100k), enthusiasm around meme coins (Solana and Pepe noted), institutional inflows driving a broader cycle, and advice to take profits during rapid meme-coin moves. The video ends with a community meetup and wrap-up reflections on bullish sentiment in Australia.
Questions this video answers
99,000 USD (spoken) "Bitcoin's currently at 99,000 USD."
Over 10,000 people attend the Australian conference (spoken).
Keynote in front of ~1,000 people (spoken).
Seven team members were flown up for the weekend (spoken).
90 high-net-worth clients (spoken).
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We don't have the PowerPoint. Yeah, I can go get it.
I can go put it.
We're at the biggest crypto conference in Australia, the yearly event in Sydney, and we're about to go in and do a keynote presentation in front of a thousand people. I'm actually a little bit nervous. I'm going to bring you behind the scenes. We've got seven of my team up here this weekend. Over 10,000 people come to this Australian conference, happens every year, and we're super excited to be a part of it. Bitcoin's currently at 99,000 USD. Hopefully over the course this weekend we break to 100. So come along with us. Going to have heaps of fun. I'll see you on the other side.
We just got to the booth. You can check it out. Looks pretty cool. We're tracking 100k Bitcoin on the TV. Hopefully it gets there by the end. I've got a slide on my keynote today. If we hit 100k, it's going to go up and hopefully might do a shoei on stage. I don't know, we'll get back to that. But essentially today we've got a lot of members coming up and we're just going to showcase our research. We got seven of our team members here, but it's a great opportunity to see everyone. It's a good, good lead gen opportunity for us as well to showcase what we do in our business, our research and what a weekend. If we hit 100k, it's going to be absolutely awesome. So we'll show you around the conference. There's so many people here. I think it's much bigger than Melbourne, it feels like. Now I'm going to go check out the keynote stage because I'm nervous. I'm going to speak there very soon. So. Yeah, come on with us.
Mate. I've got. I've got a slide ready if we hit 100k.
Okay, so there's actually like an aquarium here with USDT at the bottom. So you can go up and dive right down the bottom. I think there's a fish in there. I did see a fish. So If Bitcoin hits 100k, I want to dive in, grab some USDT.
You could argue locally, everything probably looks like a top signal at the moment, but I don't know. If bitcoin keeps running when the money rotates back into eth, I think that's when things will go again. So meme coins are all the narrative right now. Zeneca is one of the best business. If you don't follow him on Twitter, you definitely should if you can see him in the background. So meme coins, you know, I think two or three years ago I wasn't really big into. They have very little fundamental value. But right now they're just a representation of like what's happening in society with online communities and there's just literally tens of thousands of new coins being created. I've gone fairly deep in the meme coin invest pretty heavily like the last two or three months and I think they're going to have a long way to go. The biggest chains that are working well in memes are really Solana and I was speaking about this on the channel for a little while, like the Solana memes are really the place to be. But something like even Pepe on Ethereum I think is going to do really well, have a big bag at that. But, you know, I think having a little bit of an allocation of memes is not a bad idea. My mum messaged me the other day, she's now into memes. I do think though, you really want to make sure you get out of these coins earlier rather than later, because in a bear market these things crash really, really fast on the other side. We did some research recently around selling memes. Doge was only in the top 10% for less than four or five hours last cycle. So they're super volatile and the last period of a bull market is when these things gonna run and they're gonna go up really, really fast and dump just as fast. So make sure you're taking profits on the way up, don't get too crazy with your.
Profits and yeah, hope to make a lot of money.
So it's about mid morning. Retail here has gone absolutely nuts. It's probably four or five thousand people. One of the biggest things that I'm like balancing at the moment is that there's so many red flags in terms of top signals. Everyone's euphoric, everyone's making money, everyone's in memes. Historically this is like massive top signal vibes. But I think, you know, the old outage of like this time is different is kind of true because the institutional inflows is what's driving Bitcoin higher. And I think that's where like we're actually part of a bigger super cycle. The only thing is that everyone doesn't want to round trip again this cycle. So it's going to be even tougher to make sure you sell at the right time. Really what I'm looking is the bitcoin whales to start selling. Once they start selling and money's flowing down into the alts, that's where we really need to be cautious that we might see the last part of the cycle on the other side, maybe we're just max bullish. The institutions pump and we just rip past 150, who knows? But right now, not one person in here is bearish, including that bull. That is very bullish.
So we're actually at the booth today and we've got seven of the team are flown up, so a little bit behind the scenes to see how this works. We've got about 15 team members in the collection shift now, which is crazy. We've flown seven of them up here for the weekend and we just essentially try and show them through what we do. A lot of members are here, but we've got some analysts, my assistant, DTs, that had a member success, and everyone's trying to come up and learn about crypto right now. There's a lot of new money in the space, so usually people go to YouTubers or influencers to find their content. I don't consider myself an influencer, but this video's on YouTube. Funny that, but a lot of people get their stuff from really poor places, in our opinion. So we're just trying to push out more education, more insights and independent to help people so they don't get down the wrong track and end up losing out. So that's what we're here to do. And I'm losing my voice. It's only midday. My talk soon, so take it easy.
So the boys are about to go up and talk about the next trends in 2024 in crypto, which is super exciting. So we got two analyst sessions, one today and one tomorrow. Hopefully you're going to see a bit of content behind me once this goes live, but honestly, the content today that these analysts produce is absolutely epic. So they're going to learn about the upcoming trends, what we look out for, some of the tools, and yeah, honestly, I think these guys are going to crush it. So hopefully enjoy.
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What'S his name? The Russian guy? Yeah, yeah, Vladimir. Vladimir. Trump and Vladimir here. It's a bigger partnership than that, mate. So we're at the main stage. I just want to check out what the hell I'm going to be talking in front of. It's actually pretty big, but it's pretty spectacular. Like last year I had a smaller stage and I don't know how, but There was a bunch of people came with standing room only. So they bumped me to the main stage this year and yeah, got like 35, 40 minutes. We're going to do a live strategy session. So I'm actually going to take to the audience to help them create their own strategy and we're going to have a massive Red Bull before I go up just to get the nerves out of the way. But yeah, super Kelly.
Three from three, man. Three from three. Yeah.
So what's happened in the last 12 months?
It's been nuts, man. It's been our biggest month actually today we crossed our biggest month with a week to go in November. So it's just been going bananas. Yeah.
So still a lot of insight strategy training.
Yeah. So a lot of research. We do a lot more live workshops now. So we do like sales strategy workshops. We're doing like a lot more research into different sectors. Altcoin strategies and then we launched a platinum service. So we've now got 90 high net worth clients that we work with and help them with six, seven, eight figure portfolios, like grow them.
So yeah, one was to say work with your McKinsey Cos and your energy Australia's.
Yeah. How.
What kind of things could you do.
To help them from a business standpoint.
From a Web2 perspective?
So we don't really work with too many Web2 businesses but like individuals that want to come into crypto or they have a crypto portfolio that's kind of where we can kind of help them with saving time and figuring out what's going on. Shift into a new future, man.
When are you talking this weekend?
I'm speaking up here soon. 3 o'. Clock. So yeah, introducing you on stage soon. Legend, man. Thanks so much. Cheers, man. So we're about to go in for the keynotes in 30 minutes. I'm starting to get a little bit nervous now, so usually have a little Red Bull. I'm already shaking so hopefully it doesn't make me shake anymore. But today I'm talking about how to fix your portfolio and profit from the bull market. Doing a live strategy session. I'm going to go through the market update. I'm going to go through actually creating a sales strategy, creating your portfolio strategy, going to go through mine and we're going to take you behind the scenes as we get this. Hopefully the slides work. I do have a hundred thousand dollar chart and we're not at $100,000 so that's going to be. It's gonna be interesting, but come on, go.
Cool. So my Talk's now in 15 minutes and I've just been notified by the team that my slides are in the wrong format and upside down. So my assistant Alice is trying to sort it out.
Hey, fella. How are you, mate? Good to see you. Oh, I'm fucking nervous, man. I'm up. I'm up next. Yeah, yeah, we'll link up later.
That's right, mate, we'll catch up soon. Yeah, 100%. Thank you. We'll stay here.
So on the biggest stage that I've ever spoken in front of, completely copped up the slides, literally the wrong format. It's upside down, it's a PDF, so I can't actually see the slides in front of me. So Alice is trying to run back, get the PowerPoint sorted. We legit got eight minutes until we have to be sorted. Otherwise backup option is PDF. It's gonna look average, but we'll roll with it. We gotta just roll with the punches. Thank you.
Hello. Hello. How are we going?
Thank you so much for the intro. Awesome. So I had to get my slides prepared a few days earlier. They were pumping me to get the slides done. So I put these previous four cycles, it's pretty much nailed the bull market. The first two were a lot higher. But I believe that this is going to be a really good metric for us to understand when people start taking profits in bitcoin.
Meme Coins fan a couple of years ago, very much a fundamentals guy. Meme coins essentially don't have that much fundamental value, but they have community, they have narrative, they have cult like followings and they have belief. For a long time you probably understood that like these narratives move so fast. Like 6 months ago was all AI. 12 months ago it was all metaverse. Now you can look at the performance right here. Like AI is pretty much flat. Gaming's down, the other coins really underperform. Bitcoin has crushed Ethereum over the last three years and I do expect once we get to 100,000, I wish we could have celebrated. It would be fun. Maybe tomorrow. I think bitcoin is going to continue running and honestly, Bitcoin is the key to freedom. Right.
So just wrapped up at the keynote. I was super nervous, but then something clicked and I feel as though I just dialled in. It was awesome. It's like 90% packed. So had a massive crowd, really focused on strategy. So I went through the step by step, making sure goals are super important, like your sales strategy, asset allocation, top mistakes, like things that you're actually going to do to stuff things up in a bull market, which is a lot different to a bear market. And also just how to grow a big port portfolio thinking, like multiple cycles, not thinking too short term. And yeah, I think went pretty good. So we're going to come back with a community meetup and. Yeah, then we'll wrap up after that.
Oh, yeah. So we've now got a community meetup, which I forgot about and I didn't say a word. I think there's a few people there, so we're going to go check it out.
So we're at the Collective Shift meetup. I think we've just merged with Real Vision, so it's just a bunch of bananas investors that are having so much fun. They put on free drinks and everyone's just coming in, piling and having great fun. We're seeing like a lot of our members. We've had like seven or eight platinum members trying to sign up, like on the spot. There's actually a waiting list, like it's just going absolutely crazy. But I think everyone said the keynote was good. The vibe in the community when the market goes up is just like so much better. So, like, obviously the last two years hasn't been too great, like with the market, but everyone's smiling, everyone's ear to ear, everyone's having a great time. So, so much fun to see everyone. It's very tiring to talk to a lot of people and I lose track of. Of who's who with the faces. But yeah, it's an awesome vibe and to see everyone here be about Collective Shift, it's. It's wicked. So, yeah, cheers.
It's all done at Oz Crypto Con. It's been absolutely wild. I'm so tired. Today's been nuts. I'm losing my voice. But the big key takeaways is that crypto is so bullish in Australia. Everything is happening so, so bullish on the next sort of year or two. I think Meme coins everything. The narrative is driving towards that. Hopefully the East BTC pair bottoms and $100,000 Bitcoin is here by the time this video goes live. Subscribe if you want more videos like this and see you next time.










