Right way to use actors within scope

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What is a right way to launch actor inside coroutine scope?

Passing scope:

fun echo(msg: String) = println("[${Thread.currentThread().name}] $msg")

class ScopedActor(scope: CoroutineScope) {
    // In this case the scope won't wait the actor
    // private val job = Job()
    private val job = Job(parent = scope.coroutineContext[Job])
    private val channel = scope.actor<Unit>(job) {
        try {
            echo("Actor started")
            for (msg in this) echo("Message received")
            echo("Actor ended")
        } catch (exc: CancellationException) {
            echo("Actor cancelled")
            throw exc
        }
    }
    suspend fun send(msg: Unit) = channel.send(msg)
    fun cancel() = job.cancel()
}

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    runBlocking {
        val actor = ScopedActor(this)
        actor.send(Unit)
        echo("Message sent")
        actor.cancel()
    }
    echo("runBlocking finished")
}

But I cannot think of how to run the actor within thread pool.

Another aproach is to pass CoroutineContext:

class ContextActor(private val context: CoroutineContext) : CoroutineScope {
    // private val job = Job()
    private val job = Job(parent = context[Job])
    override val coroutineContext = context + job
    private val channel = actor<Unit> { ... }
    ...
}

val actor = ContextActor(coroutineContext + Dispatchers.Default)

Full example

Also there is an example in the documentation that uses Job() for canceling actors. But this example violates structured concurrency since if you comment actor.cancel() line runBlocking won’t wait the actor.

So what is the best idiomatic way to implement complex stateful actors that could be dispatched to a thread pool?

P.S. Sorry for such a long post.

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Oh, there is a function specially for switching coroutine context: withContext