Adding info on share difficulty?

[donSchoe]

Hi, would it be possible to add an verbose output of the solved share difficulty as cgminer does?

[pooler]

It's possible, but I'm not sure it would be a good idea, because it's just confusing to most people.
It's important to understand that a hash has no intrinsic "difficulty"; what cgminer displays is the difficulty relative to the maximum target that the found hash would meet. Most people don't fully understand the probability basis of pooled mining, and have a tendency to feel cheated when they submit a share that could meet a difficulty-4 target, but only get the reward of a difficulty-1 target because that's the difficulty their pool set. The pay-on-target reward system was apparently developed for this very reason: people constantly asking "so are the higher shares worth more?" (and the answer being "no").
That said, I'm open to discussion.

[ge0rg]

I've made a small patch that displays the network difficulty on each received block from a stratum server. The output is now:

[2014-01-09 17:08:54] Stratum detected new block, diff: 303.72

The code was shamelessly stolen borrowed from cgminer. Feel free to apply.

[pooler]

Honestly I don't see much interest in displaying the network difficulty every time the server requests a work restart (by the way, I realize the "Stratum detected new block" message is misleading, and I am considering changing it). Not only because the network difficulty stays the same for days, but also because the miner does not use this information in any way.

[ge0rg]

You are right, this is only relevant to curious users of multicoin-pools, who want to see if the pool has switched currencies. On such pools, displaying the difficulty on every new block is not too much overhead, though a dedicated message a la cgminer would be more elegant.