Why would you need to deposit coins on the "mining address" after registration with some user id and password?

Was that some sort of cloud mining?


I did some mining on Eligius pool in 2011. I only needed to supply my own mining payout address of my own non-custodial wallet. I don't remember all details, maybe some minimal registration was needed to be able to view your own mining stats and request a payout when minimal payout limit was reached.

Are you too lazy to search pool announcement threads here at bitcointalk?

Good luck with your 17BTC... not your keys, not your coins...