Eligius
| Trading name | Eligius |
| Industry | Mining pool |
| Founded | 27 April 2011 |
| Founder(s) | Luke-Jr |
| Key people | wizkid057 |
| Website | eligius.st |
Eligius, also called Éloi or "Luke-Jr's pool", was a mining pool. From 23 October 2012 it was maintained by wizkid057.[1]
Miners connected to stratum.mining.eligius.st on port 3334 with a valid bitcoin address as the username (the payout address). No registration was required.
Donation addresses published by the pool included 1E1igiusfEjs1pCaGjEERExE9gYcrFwow7 and Mx5FUQn8oBCoRdyBTUFu9JW5SsdEku56PP.
How it worked
- The pool charged no fees. Shares used the CPPSRB reward system at 100% of value at the time of mining.[2]
- When a block was found, miners who had reached the minimum payout threshold (about 0.04 BTC, configurable) were paid in the generation transaction.
- The pool almost never held miner balances. Payouts went directly from the block reward to miners.
- If a block was orphaned, its shares rolled into the next block's distribution.
- Bitcoin addresses were usernames. There was no separate account signup.
- A signed-message control panel let miners set options such as Namecoin merged mining and donation amounts.
Eligius was announced on 27 April 2011.[3] At launch it had no public name and paid even tiny amounts immediately.
The coinbase signature for the pool was: "Eligius".
Connecting
- GBT: gbt.mining.eligius.st:9337
- Stratum: stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334
Related links
Successor concept
Luke Dashjr later described the non-custodial pool idea as continuing in spirit at OCEAN (ocean.xyz). OCEAN is a separate service. A Wayback capture of ocean.xyz/about documents the lineage statement (the live about URL returned 404).[4]
See also
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