Eligius

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 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: 1E1igiusfEjs1pCaGjEERExE9gYcrFwow7 / Mx5FUQn8oBCoRdyBTUFu9JW5SsdEku56PP

Basic concepts:

• Pool keeps all transaction fees to itself.
• 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 0.67 BTC) 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. 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. At the time the service was operated without a name, paying out even tiny coins immediately.

Connecting to Eligius

• GBT/Getwork

mining.eligius.st:8337

• Stratum

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

Eligius-related links

• Main webpage
• Pool statistics (hashrate, found blocks, per-address balance stats)
• Total pool hashrate (EU + US, estimate)
• JSON API

See Also

• Comparison of mining pools
• Pooled mining