Unpopular opinion: Liquid is a competitor of onchain Bitcoin.

Bitaxe is a bit annoyed by the solo mining I've been doing recently, now it's time to join Ocean (even with irrelevant hashrate). I don't get one point though: do I need to have a Gateway set up to have my miner pointed at datum-beta1.ocean.xyz ? Appreciate any answer and big up to @Bitcoin Mechanic and all the others contributing to Ocean