I meant more like where would you get these data from? I guess the most precise would be to actually seed a bunch of torrents to different ratios and then test retrievability after X months.

Is it possible to obtain stats what seed ratio you need to get to on average for a torrent not to die?

I like to search for " -E" (with a preceding space) to avoid false-positives, but yeah…

this is true if you manually delete the txt file.

however, just unchecking it in the client doesn’t result in a broken seeder - at least transmission-gtk 4 will write the “file.txt” even if you didn’t check its box, or transmission will create a (sparse) “file.txt.part” file if there’s additional pieces to the “file.txt” that you didn’t download.

I would expect other clients to behave similarly.

Valve locks game libraries?

See my first sentence.

To maintain the anonymity goal you still want to obtain Talers in advance (otherwise you’d open yourself up to timing correlation) - so they will have to be in the wallet for some non-negligible duration.

Regardless of expiration that also means the device holding the secrets to use the Talers can be lost in that time, so you need some e.g. encrypted cloud backup to restore from. Since people are terrible at printing out recovery codes, you can either have key escrow (leading to a compromise of the anonymity properties), or you accept that some people will lose their money for reasons they will not understand.

Regardless, I would much prefer Taler as a CBDC to whatever permissioned Blockchain garbage the Big4 consulting companies will come up with.

Your purchase includes a 12-month Sailfish OS full license subscription

Didn’t expect a Linux phone to be the first subscription based OS. Makes for a total cost of ownership of ~600€ if you keep the device for 5 years. (299+4.99×12×5)