War, History, And Why Bitcoin Matters w/ Coin Dad

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Money, History, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Investing, Breedlove, Bitcoin, Rabbit Hole, Robert Breedlove, What Is Money, Education

4.8 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation, Coin Dad and Robert Breedlove explore the incentive structures that shape human behavior, markets, and institutions. We discuss why systems built on fiat money tend toward corruption, why authority often replaces truth, and how Bitcoin changes the game by aligning incentives with reality. From the psychology of decision-making to the hidden cost of “free” services, this episode breaks down how incentives govern everything — from personal choices to global finance — and why understanding them may be the key to navigating the modern world. This conversation covers Bitcoin, central banking, incentives, authority, responsibility, and the hidden forces that shape human action.

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0:00.0	And right over ISIS territory in Mosul,
0:02.5	pilot gets with his calm voice, gets on the intercom. And he's like, ladies and gentlemen, we just lost an engine. We're gonna do an emergency landing in Turkey. We're freaking out. Engines out, and I'm trying to get home for Thanksgiving with my wife. Thank God we landed safely in Cyrillic Air Force Base. They swapped the motor out overnight while we're in a barracks and put us back on the same freaking plane. So then we get to Spain.
0:22.9	And then the pilot gets back on the intercom. It's like...
0:25.6	The crash happened in 2018. So when that crash bottomed out, I had miners in my shop. People didn't want them back.
0:33.6	So I cleaned them up and I went online on eBay and started finding more.
0:37.7	I started going online to find a museum to give them to.
0:40.7	This is historic and crickets.
0:42.8	Nobody in the world is bothering to preserve the history of the best things since sliced
0:47.0	bread.
0:48.0	How do you educate the future without preserving the past?
0:50.4	Maybe I start my own job out of thin air.
0:52.2	I started talking to OGs and I'm like, hey, I got this in the shed, I got this in the attic. Yeah, this is at my mom's old house from when I was mining in the basement. And then it started to build into me becoming the Bitcoin mining museum. The conference started to pay us because we ended up being the center of the conference basically. Because people see the museum, they're like, that's the coolest freaking thing that was at the conference.
1:11.6	And now my museum can cover like a 1500 square foot space with, I have 136 different Bitcoin
1:17.6	mining machines collected from 15 different countries over the last five years, including. All right, Tobias, aka Coin Dad. Welcome to the show.
1:38.3	What's up, Eric? Good to see you, man. Glad to be here. Yes, glad to have you. Yeah.
1:43.6	It's a long drive. Yeah, huh? With all your, it's, glad to have you. Yeah. Yeah, it's a long drive.
1:44.9	Yeah, huh?
1:45.8	With all your, you're rolling around the states with a collection of miners, huh?
1:51.2	Yeah.
1:51.7	You have the most comprehensive collection of Bitcoin miners on the planet.
1:55.3	Correct.
1:56.2	Correct.
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