Quoting from another thread:
Here you go:
https://bitcointalk.org/merit.txt.xzSimilar to trust.txt.xz, it'll be updated weekly. It will show only the last 120 days of data; someone else should archive the old ones if you want them.
Through Torand this is
not the first time Ive had this problem:
$ wget -S https://bitcointalk.org/merit.txt.xz
--2018-03-04 14:59:20-- https://bitcointalk.org/merit.txt.xz
Resolving bitcointalk.org (bitcointalk.org)... 104.20.208.69
Connecting to bitcointalk.org (bitcointalk.org)|104.20.208.69|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:59:41 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: close
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d96a5721469bb369ae9866953b833f0d91520175581; expires=Mon, 04-Mar-19 14:59:41 GMT; path=/; domain=.bitcointalk.org; HttpOnly; Secure
CF-Chl-Bypass: 1
Cache-Control: max-age=2
Expires: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:59:43 GMT
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=2592000
Expect-CT: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: 3f65354a2c56729b-AMS
2018-03-04 14:59:23 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
I have had the same problem with PGP keys and the trust database. Even right-clicking to save images from within a browsing session oft (inconsistently) results in a Cloudflare 403 HTML file, apparently due to some weird quirks in how Tor Browser interacts with Cloudflares control-freakiness.
I request a workaround or solution for this general problem. (Note: VPN is a non-answer.)