Buy a cheap, used laptop with cash and get TAILS on USB. I say that because I know that the Middle East frowns on crypto, especially privacy coins.
Use Bisq/Haveno for local cash-only transfers (Very little paper trail)
Yes, that's a bit of a problem on the average seedbox. You'd have to modify your torrent to seed on I2P by adding I2P trackers (just a couple of them, nothing much), and then run either BiglyBT or I2PSnark to seed them on I2P. Unfortunately, most seedboxes don't give you root access, neither do they bundle these apps. Qbittorrent doesn't have good support for it yet unfortunately.
If you have an SBC/spare computer at home, would be great if you could attach a hard drive to it, install i2p/i2pd and either of the mentioned torrent clients, and seed from there in the meantime. Qbittorrent has seen community interest in I2P, unfortunately it's just not there yet
The OG I2P program is written in Java, which might show behavior like you mentioned (didn't stop immediately when stopping the service).
Please try I2PD, it's written in C++
Obviously, this doesn't change anything if you're still seeding to the clearnet. All this would do is cross-seed your torrents to the I2P network. I assume you have a suitable torrenting strategy already for the clearnet. If some day you were to abandon the clearnet for I2P, you would no longer need to take the precautions you do now because I2P is inherently private.
Please skim through the documentation for a high-level overview on I2P, and ask here if you don't understand something
Unless there's a zero-day, no. All traffic is encrypted and it should be impossible to correlate traffic chunks to identities like that
Yes, because it's P2P, every node acts as a router and thus distributes bandwidth to prevent congestion
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