As has already been said, this is a scam attempt and you should not send any bitcoins as a deposit or you'll lose them.

You can also consider any email address you've linked to the website compromised, if you have other accounts which you used a similar email and password for, you should consider changing them as soon as you can.

If an offer is to good to be true then it's not true. I'll assume your profile name is the amount they promised on their website as your bonus, you shouldn't imagine any website will give you such an amount for free.

Here is a thread I made a couple of year back that tries to simplify the concept of transaction fees and how inputs influence the amount of fees paid - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5251213.msg54504855#msg54504855.

Firstly, switch from trust wallet, you should not be using a closed source software to store your bitcoins.

When you've imported your seedphrase to a non custodia wallet like electrum. Use coin control to freeze those dust inputs, you'll not be able to spend them in future transactions. If you don't spend them, it doesn't get mixed with your other bitcoins (future) and the can't link up your UTXOs.

Bitcoin gives you freedom, so the choice of what to do with your satoshis is up to you.

• You can use it as an investment, it has proven to have lots of potential ROI.
• There are stores that accept Bitcoin, giving you the option to use it as a currency in exchange for goods and services,
• You can use it as a hedge fund against rising inflation,
• You can use it as a method of storing digital information on the blockchain.

It is majorly used now as an investment.100 years from now that utility would have changed as it evolves to changing times and new possibilities would have been explored.

I don't think we last that long.

It is impossible to outline all of the important things I've learnt that have real world applications and have potentially saved me from losses or hacks.
The answer many would give is on security; how the learnt to safely store their bitcoins, how they can apply plausible deniability in cases of a $5 wrench attack, also how to avoid a bad investment by choosing what to put your money into and what not to.

Bad choices have worked out for some, at some point in time, but they're still bad choices and should not be encouraged.
No risk; No rewards, follows the argument that without investing, which is a risk in itself, you cannot profit from price growths it doesn't mean one should throw caution to the wind.

There are no guarantees in any investment. Bitcoin expectedly should be at least 100% higher than what it is now and I'll be willing to risk spare money I got on it, I would not advise others to do so, much less borrow funds to invest.

Quoting the image so you don't have to click on the link.

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No, you don't need a notepad to edit your posts before posting them. Notepads does not contain any of the forum tags, neither does it allow you to quote messages of others or include quotes while you're still making your reply.

Some notepads are also tracking tools which collects information about you, so you should limit your usage.

Over the next two halvings we would be at ~21 million bitcoins which is over 99% of the total supply. When you go that high in the total supply cap the remaining halvings start to have less effect on the price, resulting in lesser increase by percentage compared with what we had couple of years ago.

A million dollar is a long way off from where we are now but it is certainly possible couple of decades down the road.
How much of that would be down to devaluation of fiat however?

Traditional Banks and Bitcoin share no relationship.
One is centralized and another is decentralized.
One operates on controlled and finite supply, another can be printed at will.

Banks can hold Bitcoin just as the would any valuable asset like gold, but this does not mean that both have anything in common.

I'm talking about Bitcoin specifically cause most other altcoins are not centralized and more importantly would not interest the banks when they can simply get their own by creating a CBDC.

Updating your wallets frequently on an airgapped device is not necessary, unless there is a serious security flaw, you can use the older versions for along time. Furthermore the risks in getting a updated version is nothing compared to having your wallet on your regular device.

Ledger is not an open source wallet, I recommended you use that for more security.
Getting scammed by fake stores is a whole 'nother discussion which is unrelated to my initial comment.

Bitcointalk is not in competition with any other crypto related forum, so it's perfectly fine to discuss other forums.

The one time the admin banned a forum from being advertised here was one some yes back that was paying members to spam posts here on the forum. I can't remember the name now, but the spams we're getting out of hand and needed to be regulated.

That's correct. AFAIK, all mods can also whitelist users, but they do not have a puvlucly available email where proxybanned members can reach out to them to request a whitelist.
Welsh is a mod so should always have had the ability to whitelist since they were appointed.

I didn't say a hardware wallet is the solution to all problems, there's isn't a singular security advice that offers 100% security neither is there a best advice, rather we have an application of several precautions and security tips which we are constantly learning and improving.

Combining a hardware wallet and a airgapped device deters majority of online threats like clipboard malwares or seed stealers.

As a crypto investor, you should invest in a good open source hardware wallet or keep your coins on an airgapped device. This way you don't have to worry about what you download on your mobile or desktop cause it's not linked to your holdings.

If you have to use a regular mobile device, you have to take necessary precautionary measures.
• Don't use third party keyboards,
• Don't use closed source wallets like trustwallet,
• Don't store passwords or seed phrases on the device,
• Don't click on unsolicited links.

Certainly. I'm certain most of the members who stumble on the forum without any guidance from an already registered member will abandon it once they see a big red banner telling them they have been banned and need to pay a token to get unbanned, no matter how small that token is.

Most of the members who use that option are ban evaders (this of course is down to personal perception),  so we still are not getting through to target audience.

Discontinuing the evil fee penalty all together is a solution. It is long overdue and has not had the desired effects to prevents account farming and ban evasions.

A huge percentage of those who scam get away with it. Very few cases gets global attention which attracts lots of chai analysis and tracking of the path of the funds.

There exists some safe havens where those whk want to live privately using Bitcoin without being tracked or forced to give up their privacy, this fortunately does not provide security for scammers.

There's no secret advise to navigate the forum. Just keep to the rules, find a niche that interests you, build knowledge on that and join conversations here.
Doing more of reading means you do more of learning and can apply that to your practical Bitcoin journey.

Use the search option. The forum has tons of information on every topic you are interested in.

Being indexed on Google does not mean a website is safe and there are so many reasons why someone would put a malicious website on Google.

Include your links in code tags when you're not certain of its authenticity.

If fees are on the low side and you plan to use the channel for an extended period of time, opening the channel would not be a barrier at all . What complicates it is when users expect they can use LN to perform a single transaction and pay cheaper fees.

The examples you highlighted are instances of when it is used in relation to cryptocurrency, but the possibilities extend far beyond this, making simple searches for gyms around you or a shipping order can pick up very relevant and accurate information about you.

Social media is a good tool for this, which has been used for a very long time now, and as long as the companies can lobby their way out of any legal issues they would not face any problem at all

With crypto using open sourced tools would go a long way to protect you from websites that track different levels of information.