Eligius.st

Eligius.st (miner-validator)

Eligius.st is historically the web domain associated with Eligius, one of the earliest Bitcoin mining pools, founded and originally run by Luke Dashjr (Luke-Jr) and announced on April 27, 2011. (en.bitcoin.it)

What it was

Eligius operated as a Bitcoin mining pool: it coordinated miners’ hashpower to construct candidate blocks and, upon finding a valid proof-of-work, broadcast blocks to the network (i.e., participating in the “miner/validator” role in Bitcoin’s consensus). Eligius was notable for requiring no user accounts, using a Bitcoin address as the username for payouts, and for paying miners via the coinbase (generation) transaction, minimizing custody of miners’ funds. (en.bitcoin.it)

What the website is now

As of access on March 6, 2026, visiting eligius.st redirects to OCEAN (ocean.xyz), a Bitcoin mining pool project associated with Luke Dashjr and others, positioning itself around miner control and transparent/non-custodial payout mechanics. (eligius.st)

Practical interpretation of the “miner-validator” category

In Bitcoin terminology, Eligius (and the present-day destination site it redirects to) is best understood as a mining pool operator / coordinator rather than a separate validator entity: it helps miners assemble blocks and propagate them, while consensus validity is enforced by full nodes across the network. (en.bitcoin.it)