Sazmining's New Loyalty Program Cuts Mining Fees as Clients Scale Up Hashrate
Sazmining, the Bitcoin mining-as-a-service company led by CEO and co-founder Kent Halliburton, launched a loyalty program this week that does something the hosting industry has not done before: it lowers the fee a client pays as their hashrate with the company grows.
WHAT THE PROGRAM ACTUALLY DOES
Most mining customers pay the same management fee whether they run a quarter of a petahash or twenty-five. The Wild Sats Club ties that fee to the hashrate a customer already runs with Sazmining, and applies the lower rate across their entire fleet, not just newly purchased machines.
The discount starts at 1.0 petahash with a 1% management fee cut, rises to 3% from 2.5 petahash, and reaches 6% from 5.0 petahash, with the tier recalculated every month. A customer activates with a single qualifying purchase, new, pre-owned, or refurbished, that clears 0.25 petahash for Bronze, 0.50 petahash for Silver, or 1.0 petahash for Gold, whether in one order or across orders inside a 30-day window.
Customers who buy in during the founding-member window, September 1 through December 31, 2026, activate at their full earned tier, with the lower fee starting on their first monthly recalculation after the new hardware is energized. Every benefit at launch is a fee discount, never cash or transferable value.
WHY HALLIBURTON SAYS IT EXISTS
"Mining customers have been asked to accept the same fee whether they run a quarter of a petahash or twenty-five," Halliburton said in the company's announcement. "This program fixes that."
Speaking on the Simply Bitcoin show, Halliburton said the program grew out of a look at the company's own customer data. Sazmining fed roughly 250 recorded client calls into an AI model to see what customers were actually saying, and the most notable result was how rarely a rival hosting company came up. By his account, the real competition for Sazmining isn't other mining hosts. It's exchanges, since most customers who decide against mining their own Bitcoin end up buying it instead.
Sazmining runs four data centers across three countries, hosting client fleets that range from a single rig to several hundred. Halliburton said clients with at least five rigs tend to be the happiest, because losing one machine to maintenance still leaves the bulk of the fleet producing, while a one or two rig setup takes a much bigger hit when something needs servicing.
THE PITCH BEHIND THE PITCH
Sazmining charges a 15% management fee on rigs it hosts and takes nothing if a client's rig produces no Bitcoin, a structure the company bills as aligning its incentives with the customer's. The Wild Sats Club is the first time that relationship has scaled in the client's favor as they grow, rather than resetting with every new purchase. Halliburton described it as a first step rather than a finished product, with more loyalty benefits planned for later.
This story comes from the Simply Bitcoin Live show. Watch the full episode.
