Eligius

2011-06-07T12:57:18Z

RickvanderZwet:

'''Eligius''', also sometimes referred to as Éloi or "Luke-Jr's pool", is a [[Pooled mining|mining pool]].

To use it, a miner merely needs to be directed to mining.eligius.st on port 8337, with the username set to a valid bitcoin address (which receives the payout). '''No registration is needed.'''

Donation address: 1RNUbHZwo2PmrEQiuX5ascLEXmtcFpooL

Basic concepts:
* Pool keeps all transaction fees to itself, plus 0.00000001 BTC per second since last-found block (currently this works out to about 0.0003%, and gets smaller with more miners in the pool).
* Remaining reward is divided equally among ALL shares contributed since its last-found block.
* When a block is found, the miner is paid for that block immediately as a Generated transaction, but only if his total balance is over 1 BTC (to help the recipient avoid transaction fees).
* If a block is orphaned, its shares become part of the next block's reward distribution.
* No registration. Just send username with the address you want payouts to (password can be anything).
* Will only include transactions in its blocks if the sender pays a fee of at least 0.00004096 BTC per 512 bytes.

Eligius was announced on April 27, 2011<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=6648.0 Please test: New Experimental Pool]</ref>. At the time the service was operated without a name, paying out even tiny coins immediately.

==Eligius-related links==

* [http://eligius.st Main webpage]
* [http://eligius.st/~artefact2/ Pool statistics (hashrate, found blocks, per-address balance stats)]
* [http://coin-control.appspot.com Coin Control: view the balance of an address].
* [http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/raw/combined/hashrate.txt Total pool hashrate (EU + US, estimate)]
* [http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/raw/ JSON API]

==See Also==

* [[Pooled mining]]

==References==
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[[Category:Pool Operators]]

Bitcoin Wiki - User contributions [en]

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