fix(core/metrics): set target difficulty as single value #4902
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Description
base_node::blockchain::target_difficulty_sha
andbase_node::blockchain::target_difficulty_monero
are now single values at any point in time rather than qualified by block height.Motivation and Context
I was not able to find a way (many months ago) to produce a performant non-timeseries graph that used height as the x-axis. The way I found tended to produce a lot of data on the endpoint side and crash grafana. We used a timeseries graph with an aggregation, producing an average difficulty over a time period. This PR allows for the precise difficulty w.r.t real time which I feel is better.
How Has This Been Tested?
Not tested, code compiles and this is how a lot of metric values work.