This extension allow split one job from pool to 256 sub jobs, originally created by nicehash.com, full specification on github: NiceHash_CryptoNight_modification_v1.0.txt on user side this is "nicehash"
option of pool object.
This is also primary working mode for xmrig-proxy. To make miner works with proxy without additional setup added new item nicehash
for extensions
field of login reply.
{
"id": 1, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "error": null,
"result": {
"id": "...",
"job": {
"blob": "...", "job_id": "...", "target": "...", "id": "...", "algo": "..."
},
"extensions": ["keepalive", "nicehash"],
"status": "OK"
}
}