At Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas, Sazmining CEO and Co-Founder Kent Halliburton sat down with Nico Moran of Simply Bitcoin to talk about Bitcoin mining, wild sats, aligned incentives, and why mining is still one of the most powerful ways for Bitcoiners to acquire Bitcoin.
The conversation covered a simple but important idea:
Bitcoin was not originally designed around exchanges.
Bitcoin was designed so people could acquire BTC directly from the network through mining.
That idea has gotten buried over time. Today, most people think of Bitcoin acquisition as buying from an exchange, moving it into self-custody, and repeating the process over time. That can work, but it is not the only way to stack sats.
Mining gives Bitcoiners another path.
It lets them acquire Bitcoin directly from the network, support the protocol, and receive freshly mined sats to a wallet they control.
That is what Sazmining was built to make simple.
Mining: Bitcoin’s Original Acquisition Method
In the early days of Bitcoin, mining was the main way people acquired BTC.
Before exchanges became mainstream, there was no simple app where someone could log in, connect a bank account, and buy Bitcoin in a few clicks. If you wanted Bitcoin, you mined it, earned it, or found someone willing to trade it directly.
That changed as Bitcoin grew.
ASIC miners made mining more specialized, while exchanges made buying easier. Over time, most Bitcoiners shifted from mining Bitcoin to buying Bitcoin.
But as Kent explained in the interview, mining is still the original acquisition method.
Satoshi designed the network so miners could contribute computational power, help secure Bitcoin, and earn BTC in return. Mining is not just an industry. It is a core part of how Bitcoin works.
The challenge is that mining became difficult for everyday people.
You needed hardware, infrastructure, electricity, technical knowledge, and operational support. Most Bitcoiners did not want to deal with noise, heat, setup, repairs, or ongoing management.
Sazmining exists to solve that problem.
Making Bitcoin Mining Simple
Sazmining offers Bitcoin Mining as a Service (BMaaS), which is designed to help Bitcoiners mine without the technical headache.
Instead of sourcing hardware, finding a site, negotiating electricity, configuring machines, managing repairs, and dealing with the day-to-day complexity of mining, customers can buy a rig through Sazmining and have the process handled for them.
Here is the simple version:
You buy a mining rig.
You provide your Bitcoin address.
Sazmining manages the infrastructure, deployment, and ongoing operations.
The Bitcoin your rig mines is sent to your wallet.
That is the heart of the model.
Sazmining does not touch your private keys. You own your mining hardware. You pay for the machine and the electricity. Then your rig gets to work producing Bitcoin from the network.
No garage setup.
No roaring machine in your house.
No technical rabbit hole required.
Just a simpler way to mine.
Why Aligned Incentives Matter
One of the strongest themes in Kent and Nico’s conversation was incentive alignment.
In Bitcoin, incentives matter.
The network works because miners, node runners, holders, and users all act in their own interest while strengthening the system as a whole.
Sazmining applies that same idea to Bitcoin Mining as a Service.
Sazmining does not make money by marking up hardware or electricity. Instead, the company takes a 15% management fee from the Bitcoin produced by the mining pool.
That means Sazmining only gets paid when customers are producing Bitcoin.
As Kent put it in the interview, if Sazmining cannot make Bitcoin for customers, Sazmining does not get paid.
That matters because it changes the entire relationship.
The customer wants the rig producing as much Bitcoin as possible.
Sazmining wants the rig producing as much Bitcoin as possible.
Both sides are pointed in the same direction.
That is how it should be.
Beyond Uptime: The 95% Rig Performance Guarantee
The mining industry often talks about uptime.
But uptime alone does not tell the full story.
A rig can have power and still not be performing the way it should. What customers really care about is whether their machine is delivering computational power to the mining pool so it can earn Bitcoin.
That is why Sazmining focuses on rig performance.
Sazmining offers a 95% rig performance guarantee, designed around the actual computational power delivered to the mining pool on the customer’s behalf.
That is a much stronger standard than simply saying a machine has power.
For Bitcoiners, the difference matters.
You are not buying a rig so a machine can sit somewhere with electricity running through it.
You are buying a rig to produce Bitcoin.
Wild Sats, Self-Custody, and Bitcoin Outside the Traditional Rails
Another major theme from the interview was the value of wild sats.
Wild sats are Bitcoin acquired directly from the network through mining.
For many Bitcoiners, that matters because it provides a path to acquire BTC outside the traditional financial rails. Instead of buying from an exchange, mining allows you to receive Bitcoin from the network itself.
That does not make mining free. Customers still pay for hardware and electricity.
But it does make mining a fundamentally different acquisition method.
You are not just buying Bitcoin from someone else.
You are participating in the network.
You are helping secure Bitcoin.
You are receiving sats from the block reward and transaction fees distributed through the mining pool.
For Bitcoiners who care about sovereignty, self-custody, and getting closer to the network, that is a big deal.
Sazmining’s New West Texas Data Center
During the interview, Kent also highlighted a major Sazmining milestone: the launch of a new three-megawatt site in West Texas, with room to scale.
This gives Sazmining customers another U.S.-based mining option alongside the company’s other data centers in Norway and Paraguay.
For customers, that means more choice.
Some Bitcoiners want international mining exposure.
Some want U.S.-based mining.
Some care most about electricity pricing.
Some care most about jurisdiction.
The broader point is simple: Sazmining is continuing to expand access to managed mining so more Bitcoiners can participate without having to become full-time mining operators themselves.
Support Built for Bitcoiners
Mining can be intimidating, especially for people who are new to owning hardware.
That is why support matters.
In the interview, Kent explained that Sazmining customers are assigned Bitcoin Strategy Advisors who help with onboarding, support, and strategic questions, including whether it may be time to add more hardware or cycle a fleet.
Sazmining also focuses on keeping support responsive, with most customer issues resolved quickly.
That is an important part of making Bitcoin mining approachable.
Because BMaaS is not just about putting machines online.
It is about giving customers confidence that they have a team helping them understand and manage the process.
Mining Is Not Just for Industrial Giants
Bitcoin mining has a reputation for being reserved for massive industrial players.
There is truth to that at the infrastructure level. Mining at scale requires serious operations.
But that does not mean individual Bitcoiners should be locked out of mining forever.
Sazmining’s mission is to make mining accessible again.
Not by pretending mining is easy.
Not by ignoring the complexity.
But by building the systems, software, data center relationships, and support needed to make the experience simple for customers.
That is the point of Bitcoin Mining as a Service.
You should not need to run a data center to mine Bitcoin.
You should not need to become a technician to stack wild sats.
And you should not need to rely only on exchanges to acquire BTC.
Mine Bitcoin Like Satoshi Intended
Bitcoin mining is not just a way to stack sats.
It is a way to participate in Bitcoin at the network level.
It connects you to the protocol in a way that buying from an exchange cannot fully replicate.
That is why Kent’s conversation with Nico matters.
It is a reminder that mining is not some side industry attached to Bitcoin. Mining is one of Bitcoin’s core innovations.
It is how new Bitcoin enters circulation.
It is how the network is secured.
And for Bitcoiners who want to acquire BTC directly from the network, it remains one of the most powerful tools available.
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