Last night this page was exposed, I felt that it would be invisible today

https://t.co/dfud8WraTr

Fortunately, I captured two screenshots, @boundless_xyz I watched for a very long time, at the same level as @SuccinctLabs. The last official roadmap said the testnet would start in June, and yesterday it was leaked that GPU mining would begin on July 8th.

The official page also provided two options: renting cloud GPUs and using one's own GPUs, so everyone should be able to participate in this zk mining event.

However, I went to check the documentation, and the requirements for the prover are a bit high: 16 cores, 32GB, 200GB, 10 NVIDIA RTX 3080 or T4, with a minimum of 8GB VRAM each. It feels a bit like going back to the mining days of 2017. This should change.

According to general experience, renting official cloud GPUs should be the least cost-effective, and my own machine isn't sufficient for this. I still want to find a way to gather a bunch of mining cards, take a gamble, and compete in hardware. Plus, there’s no witch involved, how great is that! Would it be more cost-effective to rent from a mining card dealer for a month or two?