After catching up on the last few pages of this post I wholeheartedly agree with the idea that having an easy to use miner built into a future version of the DigiByte wallet would be a great idea.  This would allow many more people who may be interested in cryptocurrencies to get involved quickly and easily, and with DigiByte!

I remember when I first started looking into mining last year that it all seemed very complicated, and this is coming from someone who works in IT.  I ordered a USB hub, and some ASICminers.  When they arrived, my first taste of mining was with Bitminter's downloadable Java client/miner.  I remember how happy I was when I had shares being accepted after a quick download and almost no configuration being required.

I have since configured ATI and NVidia graphics cards using BFGminer, cgminer, and cudaMiner amongst others.  However, to get the most out of the cards has required downloads of multiple drivers and applications from different authors, and countless hours reading forums and websites and messing around with stratum software, launch configs, settings for intensities, thread concurrency, and so on.  Most of the time when I talk to people about crypto currency, and mining in particular, they lose interest in trying it themselves after a few minutes of hearing what it entails.

With the multi-algo update coming to DigiByte soon, I think this opens up a great opportunity to get more people involved, mining, and hosting the blockchain for DigiByte.  Perhaps the "DigiMiner Wallet" could include an additional page during the setup wizard which asked if the user would like to use the power of their CPU or GPU to mine DigiByte while they weren't using them for anything else.  This could either be done with the mining only being triggered when they were idle, or perhaps with an On/Off toggle on the wallets Overview tab.  If selecting the option to mine you could also include a disclaimer explaining that mining would increase the operating temperature and power consumption of the computer in exchange for it's contribution to the security of the DigiByte network, and mining some DigiByteCoins.  An advanced mining tab could then have options to allow you to select the algo, number of CPU threads to use, mining pool logon info, etc.

While I realize that adding all of this would be a huge amount of work,  I think it would also greatly increase the Digibyte community, help decentralize and secure the network, and most importantly it would further differentiate DigiByte from the ever increasing mass of alternate cryptocurrencies out there.

Here's hoping to a successful launch of the new multi-algo update and the hard fork!