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With the bitcoin halving coming up, some smaller bitcoin miners might be looking for alternative ways to use their rigs. If ZK is here to stay, then generating zk proofs from protocols outsourcing them is the way the market is going to go. At the moment, zk proofs are processed on the protocol user's device which takes a while on a PC and is a problem as mobile usage grows. The way to fix this is hardware acceleration by outsourcing the proofs via a zk prover market such as the one Marlin is developing that leverages Oyster which allows for secure, serverless, and confidential zk proof generation on ASICs, GPUs, and FPGAs. Maybe someone will appreciate this info on this garbage dump.