Kent Halliburton (Sazmining) grew up on a cranberry farm in Oregon, spent a decade in solar, and now runs a Bitcoin mining company from the jungle in Peru. This one goes deep.
We get into why buying your Bitcoin on an exchange makes you a consumer instead of a producer, the 2013 split that broke how the community thinks about mining, "fiat hashers," and why the pubcos pivoting to AI might actually be a good thing.
Then it gets real — Kent walks through the six-figure in-person scam that hit him in Amsterdam (yes, the one Wired covered), why the right to transact might be the most important right we have, and why he thinks Bitcoin is a 1,000-year project we're not building like one yet.
Chapters:
00:00 Cold open
01:30 Cranberry farm to Bitcoin mining
09:00 Wild sats & the 2013 timeline split
18:00 Fiat hashers & mining centralization
27:00 The right to transact
34:00 KYC is a honeypot
41:00 The Amsterdam scam
52:00 Bitcoin as a 1,000-year project
Sponsored by Sazmining and LEDN.
Follow Kent: @khalliburton
Subscribe for weekly Bitcoin, freedom, and sovereignty conversations.