Andreas Antonopoulos sells the paperbacks through Amazon. He also sells the e-books. It's true that there is a free version on GitHub, but despite that, some people prefer to buy the actual book for various reasons.

Firstly, it's a way to support the author and show appreciation for their work. Secondly, people like myself don't like reading digital books. I have always preferred a physical copy I can hold in my hands than starring at a computer monitor, which I already do way more than I should. I also enjoy seeing my progress, as the amount of pages I have read increases, while those that remain to be read decrease. You don't get that from e-books. Those digital page numbers mean nothing to me. 

I don't know if it's just me or if there is a general problem, but I can't access this achieve you posted. I am getting a 'site can't be reached error' every time. Perhaps it's an issue related to my VPN, perhaps not. Speaking of VPNs, they are the perfect honeypots that government agencies can use to catch bad actors thinking they are protected. Maybe you could focus your research on them and see what you come up with.

I know that the Bitcoin mining difficulty adjusted not that long ago, but I don't remember the last time I saw the average block time being around 8 minutes.
In fact, the last couple of times the difficulty adjusted, I saw mempool.space showing a block time of about 11 minutes. Perhaps the Texan miners have turned their machines back on during the last cycle or some other devices woke up.

   

It's crap either way, just of a different color. The more it can be avoided, the better it is for everyone. There is an alternative solution for KYC as well, as mentioned by one of our local forum members. But this isn't the place to talk about it.

Amazon doesn't offer it anymore. It isn't available, but it used to be. If you can't get it the normal way by purchasing it, I am sure you know there are alternative ways to get your hands on it. It took me a few seconds to find 2 working download links. I guess we are talking about the same book, the one with 360 (or so) pages.

The bolded part is probably also the answer to your question. I guess OPs idea wasn't to recommend technically complicated materials for reading. I don't think Mastering Bitcoin is something you would recommend to someone who knows nothing about crypto, and that's probably also true for Softwar. 

I have heard people from our Balkan countries discussing and recommending the new Trustee Card in partnership with Binance. As was already said in this thread, it's only a virtual card that you can connect and use via Google Pay, but apparently it's working fine in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro. Looks like the fees are on the better side as well. I am not on Telegram, but I am sure someone from our local board could point you in the right direction if you asked.

I don't see how signatures, signature campaigns, and merits are keeping you from posting or discussing Bitcoin in any way you want. You are free to browse and post in any area of the forum. You can post, create your own threads, and even diss or attack other members or staff, and no one is going to silence you for it. You can even self-moderate your threads and have control over who can write in them and who can't. You can create local rules preventing certain users to comment in your threads if that's what you want. Can your trust ratings be impacted by such actions? Yes, they can. But why would you care unless you want to join a signature campaign yourself?!

If you don't like seeing someone's posts, ignore them. There is literally a button for it to make the ignoring even more serious. 
Are posts breaking any rules? Report them, and if you are right, the staff will delete them regardless of who wrote it.

That's a good example. If that point is there, the casino has the right to take advantage of it. Whether they will use said right is their discretion. It's certainly something I would consider unfair. And if you think about it, any use of a casino with crypto can be considered mixing your coins. You deposit your coins, which go into a big pool with those of other players and when you request a withdrawal, you get back something completely different with a different history behind it. You mixed your coins.

I have noticed that with certain casinos while doing my checks for my Withdrawal Fees thread. My dummy accounts created only for that purpose suddenly stopped working in some instances. That means they deleted it from their systems after x amount of months without real use. It's not a problem, as long as they don't confiscate your deposits or winnings with it.

But online casinos also have dormant account fees. That's something that could be considered unfair. At least, it's in the grey area. 

Ordinals aren't earning opportunities. They are a coordinated spam attack on the Bitcoin blockchain meant to make it ineffective for normal and cheap P2P payments. It's an organized attack by proponents of bigger blocks with the addition of finding a big enough market of interested parties in their inscriptions. Look at it like this: oh, so you don't want to increase the block size? Fine, now enjoy our never-ending attack on your small-block network.   

It's not an issue as long as the gifts are digital and don't require that the developers reveal any identifiable information about themselves or perform any sort of KYC. If identity verification was a requirement, we could question if there are any ulterior motives behind this action. But if it's just a token you could purchase yourself anonymously if you wanted to, I don't see a problem with it. Of course, the question is would real bitcoiners even want that. 

Jambler is not a mixer, so it's not going to take possession of the coins going through it, as you said. It's a business offering everyone a chance to become a partner or an investor in the mixing business and make some money from it. As an end user of mixing services, you have no contact with Jambler.   

When I mentioned unfair terms and conditions, it can mean many different things. For instance, some casinos are ok if you wager your deposits 0.5-1x if you are betting on sports. But I have also seen certain brands require 3x. That's quite a big difference and is something I consider to be unfair. If there are casinos that remain in business for years requiring a 0.5-1x wagering requirement of your deposits, there is no need to ask players to roll over their deposits 3 times. There are, of course, other examples as well, like betting limits and placing unfair minimum bets on player accounts, etc.

Trying to exploit the loopholes by playing around with the word filters is also against the mixer ban rules, so one shouldn't do that to be on the safe side.

You mean this thread and not my post that you quoted, right? The question and the OP's intentions aren't according to the new rules. But the replies of other users and the flow of communication is, so I think it's ok.

That might work sometimes, other times it won't. Theymos has applied word filters to known associations with mixing services. But I don't know if those filters apply only to URLs or any mention of such mixers and similar combinations. Anyways, if you mentioned a banned word, the forum's settings will change it to show "banned service" or something along those lines.

Sadly, the day we could recommend mixers on Bitcointalk are gone. However, we can talk about reliable sites discussing mixing and the theory of it.
Take a look at BitMixList. I just bookmarked it myself a few minutes ago. The website is created by a trusted Bitcointalk user. You will find what you are looking for there.

LoyceV already mentioned, but mixers and popular centralized exchanges aren't exactly friends. More precisely, the information exchanges receive from blockchain analysis companies about coins connected to mixers causes them to sound many alarms. If possible, stay away from CEXs.

Also stay away from Wasabi and their default coordinator that is partnered with a blockchain analysis company interested in de-anonymizing bitcoin transactions.

This is a welcome addition, especially after the 2024 rule change regarding mixing services on Bitcointalk.
Someone else already created something similar, but said they have no plans to maintain it. So, this will be the second mixer source I bookmark. It can come in handy to do some cleaning when the fees drop.

I have two suggestions.

1. Please add dark mode if you can.
2. It would be nice to have some ratings for the services, but I understand that it could be difficult to add without sounding biased. 

I don't know what kind of messages can be shared via the Bitcoin developers mailing list and if announcements and advertisements of this kind are allowed, but if they are or if there is a way to get in contact with all the devs from there, you could give that a try. It would be just another source of worthy individuals who could receive those NFTs you plan to create.

But here is the thing, whatever unique NFT piece of art you create for the contributors you deem worthy of receiving them, I can just go right click > save image as, and it's mine. I don't need or care about the signature that provides me with the sole ownership of said NFT. For the purpose of looking at or enjoying that piece of art (if that's what I want to do), it's not needed.

I think you can improve on your wallet list.
Firstly, it mentions only a few software and browser-based wallets. There isn't one hardware wallet there. Perhaps you can take some names from https://thebitcoinhole.com/software-wallets when it comes to software wallets. It's a website created and maintained by another user of Bitcointalk.

I also feel like the wallet category, being as important as it is, should be much higher up on your website and not something placed in the end.

I am thinking more in the direction of Twitter integrating crypto payments, but the ones Elon likes, such as Dogecoin, Shiba, meme coins, and similar ones that are easier to manipulate by him through his communication channels. I think there is already a limited tipping option that probably supports only a few selected countries in the West, but I haven't read much about it.