From Residential Solar to Bitcoin Mining | Kent Halliburton, Center of Hash E010

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Kent Halliburton, co-founder and CEO of Saz Mining, discusses how his background in residential solar, software and computer engineering ultimately led him to bitcoin mining, why hydro which powers all four of Saz’s sites (each on a different continent) is such an efficient underlying source of fuel, the role bitcoiners will naturally need to play in decentralizing mining away from fiat-minded businesses, and how the hosting model with individuals or principals directly owning miners is the best way to align economic incentives, despite challenges any individual hosting company might have had in the past.

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0:00.0	Kett, thanks for coming to Austin.
0:07.0	I'm excited to record this podcast, Center of Hash.
0:10.0	I think we're at episode 10.
0:12.0	We skipped a few weeks, but first, how was your first CrossFit this morning?
0:18.0	Oh, it was fun, man.
0:20.0	It's been a lot of years since I've been in a gym and working out with a bunch of deeds like that.
0:23.4	So, yeah, it was fun.
0:25.5	And I will be sore and not certain if I'm going to be able to put my bag in the overhead bin after all those presses.
0:31.8	Guys and girls, we've got a Bitcoin group that goes to CrossFit a couple days a week.
0:40.2	So both represented, but you hadn't done it before, and it was good to get you out there.
0:45.7	Yeah.
0:46.0	Good way to start the day.
0:47.2	Yeah, thank you.
0:48.0	And it's fun to be here, man.
0:49.0	I'm glad to be recording with you.
0:50.4	And you were at TabConf just before this?
0:53.0	Yeah, that was the real
0:54.3	motivation to get into the US. You know, I live abroad, but came for tabconf, you know,
1:01.7	development and developers are a big part of our business at SAS mining. And so I came to,
1:08.0	you know, rub elbows with that community and learn what I could.
1:11.3	And then flew here to Austin afterwards to record with you.
1:14.6	Quick shot over to Austin from Atlanta before going back to South America.
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