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

https://t.co/dfud8WraTr

Fortunately, I took 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, but it was exposed yesterday that graphics card mining would begin on July 8th.

The official page also provided two options: renting cloud GPU or using your own GPU. From this, it seems that everyone should be able to participate in this zk mining activity.

But when I looked at the documentation, 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.

Generally speaking, renting the official cloud GPU should be the least cost-effective option. My own machine isn't enough for this, so I still want to find a way to gather a bunch of mining cards, take a gamble, compete on hardware, and there’s no witch involved, how great! If I could find a mining card vendor to rent for a month or two, wouldn’t that be more cost-effective?