Oops, sorry, I see the subject line changed. This is what I get for working down the thread list top to bottom :)

I think the best path forward now is to finish off getblocktemplate support in the various tools so it's possible to pool for payout purposes without giving up control of block creation modulo the coinbase. Combined with the recent sipa performance enhancing goodness, it would hopefully persuade some non-trivial chunk of hashpower to go back to running their own node and start the process of turning pools merely into payout trackers rather than block selectors.

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:

Jeff, I think the message you're replying to got clipped.

Satoshi's only comment AFAIK on the topic of GPU mining was to wish for a gentlemen's agreement to postpone it as long as possible, to help make sure the distribution of coins was as even as possible. Indeed this predated pooled mining.