Regarding (1), he also got verbal permission from the bartender before entering the women’s restroom

You just wiggle your butt around (for a bidet toilet seat)

You can just pat it dry, the toilet paper doesn’t rip

You dry off with toilet paper. The bidet is for cleaning

Your currency is stored locally on your device and transferred directly to the merchant when transacting. The marchant software can also be selfhosted. It just has to communicate with with the centralized exchange for deposit into traditional bank accounts.

https://www.taler.net/en/features.html

If you don’t have a backup then you’re likely out of luck. But that’s better than cash, where you can’t make a backup

Then you wanna deposit it immediately to find out, like a seller does

Somewhat

It seems sellers can host their own payment receipt service and the verfication comes from cryptographically signing the money when it’s issued from issuers

Has the audio recording been released?

They seemingly wanted to design the entire interface around touchscreen 2-in-1s. If you went in a Microsoft store around the time windows 8 came out, they were leaning really hard into the 2-in-1s. I got a surface pro 3 at that time that I used to take handwritten notes in school, and the windows 8 interface was honestly awesome with that use case. On my desktop PC, though, I held out updating from 7 until windows 10.