This is a great idea.  Someone do it.

lol

I really don't care that much, but given a choice, I'd rather contribute my MH/s to a different pool...

Maybe I'll put an ASCII penis in if I ever have enough GH/s solo mine a block...

Eligius removed from my list of pools.

Interesting. Your religious mumbo jumbo is just as valuable to me as Viagra ads. It is, for all intents and purposes, spam.

luke is a better troll than all of you

Religion affects the presidency because not declaring a faith during an election is political suicide in current american society.
It also makes a candidate lose significant votes from family-centric, conservative and religious communities.

Even if you don't believe in anything, you *have* to declare a faith in the US political system if you want to get elected into any significant office.
There are just about zero self-professed atheists or agnostics in any elected government post for this reason.

http://www.adherents.com/adh_congress.html

It seems too many people might be taking this thread too seriously (although Eligius actually had a surge of miners join not long after it was posted...), so I'm "forced" to respond. In short, there is no technical problem with the prayers, and they do not involve Eligius miners any differently than solo miners-- the only reason I can speculate Graet posted this (since he won't give a rational reason) is to grab more miners to his pool or some kind of subtle anti-Catholic agenda (he denies both).

Yeah right. Nevermind the fact that it was actually started with political propaganda in the Genesys block by Satoshi himself, setting a clear and undeniable precedent.

Anyone who can think knows this is at the very least neutral, and at best positive.

Coinbases and transaction spam are two entirely different things. Transaction spam serves no purpose, destroys coins, and can never be purged from the block chain. Coinbases can contain text messages by design, and can be purged immediately from your block chain.

Miners do not participate at Eligius any more than they do at other pools or solo mining. Miners hash the prayers indirectly through multiple layers of SHA256 whether they are mining on Eligius or not. Furthermore, I have not been at all secretive about either the Catholic theme of St. Eligius, nor the fact that I have been including prayers rather than pure random data in the coinbase.

Graet is quick to deflect his "argument" to real block chain spam, and claim I am at fault for that. However, it doesn't take much thinking to realize this is the same as arguing that a rape victim is responsible for being raped. "Oh, you were putting prayers, so you're at fault for a troll really spamming the block chain with slander." "Oh, you were acting so good, so you're at fault for a rapist wanting to take away your innocence." This blame-the-victim attitude is IMO disgusting.

It's supposed to be random enough that miners aren't working on the same hashes. In practice, this only requires a few bytes of unique data, which Eligius guarantees by putting the usual extranonce at the start of the coinbase (the prayers are at the end, after the extranonce + "Eligius"). As noted, Satoshi himself endorsed putting text content in the coinbase with the Genesys block, so it would be silly to argue it creates any real problems.

St. Eligius actually is also the patron saint of miners, coin collectors,  and minters. Great, that you are Catholic, but I would recommend studying your religion a bit more-- especially the Syllabus of Errors condemned by Pope Pius IX, and the dogma of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus ("Outside the Church there is no salvation").

Dont you think calling him a nutjob and a terrorist might be going a little bit too far? 

This post was a waste of me time.  I want my 2 seconds back.