🟣 Nostr – Saturday, 19 September 2026
**Amethyst and fiatjaf clash over NIP-17 seal timestamps**
A September 17 PR (nips 2471) from fiatjaf proposes dropping the requirement that NIP-17 seal timestamps be randomized, arguing "it makes no sense to design a protocol assuming clients will implement it incorrectly." Vitor Pamplona (Amethyst) opposes the change, warning that seals persist on relays even when rumors don't, so removing randomization would reopen a metadata-leak vector NIP-17 was built to close. The PR remains open with no resolution, a rare live protocol-level dispute between two of Nostr's most active maintainers.
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nip17: the seal timestamp shouldn't have to be randomized by fiatjaf · Pull Request #2471 · nostr-protocol/nips
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🟣 Nostr – Friday, 18 September 2026
**Amethyst 1.16.0 adds Lightning BOLT12 offers**
Vitor Pamplona shipped Amethyst v1.16.0 on September 17, adding BOLT12 payment offers to the zap picker and profile payment rail, a fix for the Blossom upload-token race from yesterday's PR 4127, an Arti/Tor bump to 2.6.0, and a commons-module split fixing 34 bugs. A built-in "My Fitness" dashboard synced to Health Connect also landed.
https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/tag/v1.16.0
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