Why do people assume to maintain privacy you have to do the entire computation locally?

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

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Aleo has a clever proof of proof* consensus scheme. The side effect is an excess supply of prover compute that is auctioned to end users.

This offloads the heavy lifting from the users' mobile devices to specialized FGPAs in the "cloud."

*I think they have a different name for it

Technologist, Natural Philosopher, Wizard

It’s a combined PoS and PoW right? Actually have never looked to much into it.

When you say offload, is it like a traditional prover network?

Yes. It's a hybrid,  PoW / PoS.

Imagine using Bitcoin miners' wasted hashes for useful work.

You send them a blob to hash, they hash it for you, and then send you the result (or send it to an api, on your behalf).

But in Aleo's case, the blob is a hard zk computation and the SHA256 algorithm is a complex zk circuit.