fix(price): bound Nostr-sourced price staleness at 1.5x TTL, not 2x

[ToRyVand]

Closes #860. Thanks @arkanoider for the ping — took it as requested.

The bug

NostrProvider::rank_candidates (src/price/providers/nostr.rs) accepted a trusted-node rate event up to the full max_price_staleness_seconds old. PriceManager::update_all then stamped every currency in the tick's aggregate with as_of = now regardless of source, and the store (PriceStore::get) allows serving an entry for another full max_price_staleness_seconds before refusing it. Net: a Nostr-sourced price could be served for close to 2x the configured TTL — against a setting whose name implies one TTL.

Why not "carry created_at through to as_of" (the issue's own original suggestion)

That framing was written against an older shape of this code. Today, Quote (src/price/provider.rs) and AggregateResult (src/price/aggregate.rs) carry no timestamp at all — aggregate.rs is explicitly documented as a pure, clockless transform, and store.update() takes one now: i64 for the whole tick's aggregate, not per-source. Threading a real per-source timestamp through Quote → aggregate_tick → AggregateResult → store for every provider would be a real architecture change.

It also turns out to be more than the bug needs: Nostr is already restricted to fallback-only (restrict_nostr_to_fallback in manager.rs) — for any currency a non-Nostr provider can cover this tick, Nostr's quote for that currency is dropped before aggregation ever sees it. Nostr's quote only survives to affect as_of when it's the sole contributor for that currency this tick. Every HTTP-sourced as_of is already accurate (ingestion ≈ observation for an HTTP fetch), so the double-staleness bug is real only in the Nostr-exclusive case.

The fix

Given that narrower blast radius, this closes it entirely inside the Nostr provider's own acceptance gate — no changes to Quote, AggregateResult, aggregate_tick, or PriceStore.

New [price] setting nostr_ingestion_budget_pct: f64 (default 0.5). The Nostr provider's max_age becomes max_price_staleness_seconds × nostr_ingestion_budget_pct instead of the full TTL — the setting's "how old may an event be when accepted" and "how long may we serve what we accepted" roles get split instead of double-counted. Worst case total age: 0.5×TTL (ingestion) + 1.0×TTL (store's own unchanged window) = 1.5×TTL. Not an exact 1.0x bound (that would need the full timestamp-threading refactor above), but it directly closes the issue's own framing ("served for ~2x") and gives operators a knob to tighten further (e.g. 0.2 → 1.2x) without more code changes. 0.5 as the default balances that against the Nostr provider's purpose as a fallback-of-last-resort — a too-small ingestion window would reject more still-useful, merely-lagging events, worst in exactly the case (Nostr-exclusive currency) where losing the source is worst.

nostr_anchor_dependent (fiat-cross-via-Nostr-anchor) currencies are out of scope here — that flag protects a different thing (republication provenance, PR #841). They benefit transitively from a fresher anchor without needing separate handling; noted in the docs rather than silently left unaddressed.

Changes

• src/price/config.rs: PriceSettings.nostr_ingestion_budget_pct (default 0.5), validated to (0, 1].
• src/price/providers/nostr.rs: NostrProvider::new takes the new param; max_age is scaled before the existing zero-floor.
• src/price/manager.rs: build_provider/from_settings thread the new setting through.
• settings.tpl.toml, docs/PRICE_PROVIDERS.md: documented.

Test plan

• New regression test proving the fix: an event 1000s old — well inside the old unscaled 1800s window — is accepted under the old gate and rejected under the new default-scaled 900s gate.
• Budget scaling (0.25 × 2000 = 500) and the zero-floor edge case (a budget that would round to 0s) both covered.
• Config validation: budget <= 0, > 1.0 rejected; 1.0 and 0.5 accepted.
• All existing price::* tests updated for the new NostrProvider::new signature and passing (146 tests in the module).

cargo build, cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo fmt --check, cargo test --bin mostrod (1190 passed), markdownlint-cli2 on the touched doc — all clean.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added a configurable Nostr ingestion freshness budget, defaulting to 50% of the normal price staleness window.
  • Added settings documentation, tuning examples, and guidance on currency-specific behavior.

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented compounded freshness windows by limiting how long Nostr events can be accepted.
  • Added safeguards for very short windows, including a one-second minimum.

• Validation

  • Invalid budget values are rejected, while supported boundary values are accepted.

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Walkthrough

The change adds a validated nostr_ingestion_budget_pct setting with a default of 0.5. PriceManager forwards it to NostrProvider, which limits accepted event age to the configured fraction of the price staleness window and enforces a one-second minimum.

Changes

Nostr ingestion freshness budget

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Budget configuration and documentation src/price/config.rs, settings.tpl.toml, docs/PRICE_PROVIDERS.md	PriceSettings defines the budget with a default of 0.5. Validation accepts values in (0, 1]. Configuration and provider documentation describe the bounded ingestion window.
Provider construction wiring src/price/manager.rs	PriceManager passes the configured budget through provider construction to NostrProvider.
Scaled Nostr age gate and coverage src/price/providers/nostr.rs	NostrProvider scales max_age by the budget, floors the result at one second, and tests scaled, minimum-window, rejection, and constructor behavior.

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This PR narrows the maximum age of accepted Nostr price events through a validated setting, reducing possible price staleness without changing the broader price-storage flow. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PriceSettings
  participant PriceManager
  participant NostrProvider
  PriceSettings->>PriceManager: provide nostr_ingestion_budget_pct
  PriceManager->>NostrProvider: construct with budget percentage
  NostrProvider->>NostrProvider: calculate max_age and apply one-second minimum
  NostrProvider->>NostrProvider: reject events older than scaled max_age

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A rabbit checks the clock with care,
And trims old prices from the air.
Half the window, one second low,
Through settings and providers flows.
Fresh Nostr events now hop in time.

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In `@src/price/providers/nostr.rs`:
- Around line 121-127: Choose and enforce one documented contract for sub-second
ingestion windows: either reject configurations where
max_price_staleness_seconds multiplied by nostr_ingestion_budget_pct is below
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src/price/config.rs lines 23-31, settings.tpl.toml lines 151-154, and
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[arkanoider]

Great job @ToRyVand i will be looking into this asap...sorry with lnp2p bot closure work is exploding for a small team like us!

[ToRyVand]

@arkanoider really sorry to hear about lnp2pBot — that's a hard loss, especially for a project so many people relied on. If Mostro's team capacity is stretched right now, I'm glad to help with whatever's most useful — more reviews, more PRs.