Bitcoin's Most Dangerous Idea | Kent Halliburton

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. Bitcoin #BitcoinMining #Sazmining #Cypherpunk