can only be used for their site
You realize you're talking about ypool, right?
yes, and Ypool miner only works with Ypool

and they have their own coins too... (or very close too..) which sounds pretty far away from any ideal behind crypto...
My point is the miner has to customized for each coin. that is a lot of work. So, anytime a coin is added. a new version has to be made. as I said..easier to make a mining pool with a fee.
I will tell you my crypto weekend: I did several laucnh: 10-5; Hirocoin, Shacoin, europacoin, rhinohorn
Good luck keeping up with that... (and most of it in solo... of course not all with nvidia, but it just to say).
Actually this could be done with some special new coin known to be profitable where an address could be hardcoded, but again we miss the launch (which is mainly the only time it is profitable for small miner) because the wallet are released at the time of the launch but that would also require to rewrite everything such it is not opensource (have no idea what it means... like if you can verify when you only give the binary

)
Honestly he should make a bootable linux version. With auto donate similar to peonminer, and smos.