# Xeolot | Sherwin Vishesh Jathanna > Invented Xeolot, a crypto miner written in C++, cross-platform for Linux, Windows, and macOS, including support and binaries for Raspberry Pi and OpenWrt route… Source: https://www.sherwinvishesh.com/project/xeolot Copyright 2026 Sherwin Vishesh Jathanna. Text may be quoted with attribution. The design and source code are not licensed for reuse. Invented Xeolot, a crypto miner written in C++, cross-platform for Linux, Windows, and macOS, including support and binaries for Raspberry Pi and OpenWrt routers. It was 28% more efficient than traditional miners. Most crypto miners are hungry programs that assume they are running on a beefy rig with a fast, reliable connection. **Xeolot** was built on the opposite bet: that a miner written carefully enough in **C++** could squeeze more work out of *less* hardware and shakier networks. The result is a lean, cross-platform mining engine that runs everywhere from a full desktop down to a Raspberry Pi or a home router, and it does so while running about **28% more efficiently** than conventional miners. That number is the whole point of the project: same silicon, more useful work, less waste. ### One codebase, everywhere Xeolot compiles and ships for **Linux, Windows, and macOS**, with dedicated binaries for resource constrained hardware like **Raspberry Pi** boards and **OpenWrt routers**. Rather than treating those tiny devices as an afterthought, the whole design leans into them: a *low memory footprint* and efficient CPU use mean the miner behaves the same on a cluster of cheap nodes as it does on a high end machine. That makes it a natural fit for edge computing and distributed setups where every watt and every megabyte counts. ### Talking to the network Underneath, Xeolot speaks the languages the mining world actually uses. It supports the **Stratum** and **GBT** pooled mining protocols, plus *ultra low overhead solo mining* for anyone pointing straight at their own node. A **scalable networking scheduler** lets it handle any hashrate without stalling while keeping connection overhead to a minimum, so communication stays steady even under heavy load. It also uses **long polling** to react the instant new work appears, and it is clever enough to borrow longpoll data from *any* available pool even when the primary one does not offer it. ### Never sitting idle The efficiency gains come from a simple obsession: *never let the hardware wait*. Xeolot is **heavily threaded**, so fetching new work and submitting completed work happen in parallel without ever pausing the actual mining. It **prefetches the next job** before the current one finishes, **caches submissions** during brief network outages so nothing is lost, and can even generate valid work locally through Stratum, GBT, or *ntime rollover* when supported. To avoid wasted effort, it runs its own **lightweight block detection database**, spotting fresh blockchain blocks on its own when a pool's longpoll is slow or failing, which keeps it from grinding away on stale work that would only get rejected. ### Built to stay up Pools go down, get slow, or start misbehaving, and Xeolot is designed to shrug all of that off. Its **failover and multi-pool support** automatically reroutes mining to backup pools the moment the primary one stumbles. A pool that starts rejecting every share is *temporarily disabled* so it cannot drag performance down, and when the main pool is merely sluggish, the miner **trickles spare work to the backups** so no computational cycle goes to waste. ### Full transparency and control Xeolot keeps you fully informed. It tracks detailed **per device statistics**, including accepted, rejected, and hardware error rates alongside work utility metrics, and it prints a clean summary report on exit so you can see exactly how a session went. A **menu based configuration interface** lets you adjust most settings *on the fly*, with no restart and no hand editing of config files. Taken together, the threading, the smart network handling, and the caching logic make Xeolot a small but genuine demonstration of how thoughtful system design turns into real, measurable gains in the decentralized computing world. ## At a glance - **Timeline:** Jan 2019 - Mar 2021 - **Type:** Research & Development - **Efficiency:** 28% more efficient - **Other Contributors:** Ujwal Prakash ## Technologies - C++ - Cryptocurrency Mining Algorithms - Cross-platform Development - Embedded Systems (Raspberry Pi, OpenWrt) ## Categories - Blockchain - Hardware ## Links - [Archive](https://sherwinvishesh.com/archive)