Quote from: da2ce7 on March 24, 2011, 07:32:36 AM

Create a API so that this mining program so users can get statistics about the rate of Bitcoin being generated directly from their favourite pool.

Don't mind me if I am overthinking this but I don't think pooled mining should be encouraged officially. The only advantage of regular users not "forgetting" (as theymos put it) about mining, is to make the network more resilient by having fewer weak spots. Eventually the number of network nodes will have to be limited to powerful operators, but until we have a multitude of such operators, solo mining can be encouraged. Though maybe if it's made easy as a click for the regular user, there will be many more pools and my argument would become invalid.