<p>Practically, stake should linearly decay to zero in 24 months. Exact workings of the merit calculations are <a href="https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/blob/master/core/src/main/java/bisq/core/dao/governance/merit/MeritConsensus.java">in the code here</a>.</p>
<p>Time is calculated in blocks, with 50,000 assumed to be the number of blocks per year.</p>
<p>After 1 month, Alice would retain ~9583 BSQ of merit voting weight. She should be able to stake any amount of BSQ over the dust limit (5.47 I think?) and be able to make a vote transaction. Any vote transaction she makes, regardless of how much she stakes, will include that ~9583 BSQ voting merit weight.</p>
<p>I think only Manfred would know this. I get the impression it's calculated <a href="https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/blob/master/core/src/main/java/bisq/core/dao/governance/merit/MeritConsensus.java#L144">when a blind vote transaction is made</a>.</p>

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