Eligius

Eligius

Trading name	Eligius
Industry	Mining pool
Founded	April 27, 2011
Founder(s)	Luke-Jr
Key people	wizkid057
Website	http://eligius.st

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

As of October 23, 2012, Eligius is maintained by wizkid057.

To use it, a miner merely needs to be directed to stratum.mining.eligius.st on port 3334, with the username set to a valid bitcoin address (which receives the payout). No registration is needed.

Donation address: 1E1igiusfEjs1pCaGjEERExE9gYcrFwow7 / Mx5FUQn8oBCoRdyBTUFu9JW5SsdEku56PP

Basic concepts:

• The pool charges no fees and shares are managed under the CPPSRB reward system at 100% value at the time of mining.
• When a block is found, all miners who have reached the minimum payout threshold (currently about 0.04 BTC and is configurable) are paid via the Generation transaction.
• The pool almost never has miner's funds, as they are paid directly to the miners from the block reward.
• If a block is orphaned, its shares become part of the next block's reward distribution.
• No registration; bitcoin addresses are used for usernames.
• A signed message based control panel was added for securely setting options for miners, including Namecoin merged mining and donation amounts.

Eligius was announced on April 27, 2011. At the time the service was operated without a name, paying out even tiny coins immediately.

The coinbase signature for this pool is: "Eligius".

Connecting to Eligius

• GBT

gbt.mining.eligius.st:9337

• Stratum

stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334

• Getwork

getwork.mining.eligius.st:8337

Eligius-related links

• Main webpage
• Pool statistics (hashrate, found blocks, per-address balance stats)
• Total pool hashrate
• JSON API
• New API and details

See Also

• Comparison of mining pools
• Pooled mining

References

• Bitcoin Mining
• Video: What is Bitcoin Mining