Hello,

I've noticed that sometimes the pool mines coins that have a lower difficulty than the current difficulty from the pool. For example I had a miner mining at 2048 diff and the pool was sending it coins with 6 - 400 diff. Using cgminer my miner seemed to continue computing shares at the 2048 difficulty. My understanding of how mining works my be incorrect, but couldn't the miner start mining at the lower difficulty and solve blocks faster than computing shares? Is this resulting in wasted hashing time?

Would it make sense for Clevermining to override the share difficulty with the block difficulty if the block difficulty is less than the share difficulty?

I'm working on writing my own mining software and I could put in an option to use the block difficulty if it is lower than the share difficulty. Would the pool reject shares that solved the block difficulty but didn't solve the share difficulty?