Neither did Satoshi Nakamoto, in this context.  Not that that would matter to one of the ovine imbeciles who exclusively keeps money on exchanges.  Baa, baa.  Do you even know what a private key is?  It is self-evident that you neither know nor care why private keys are important.


That’s not something to brag about.  That you think it is, says much about you.  But not as much about you as your attitude about private keys.

The Bitcoin Forum is for users of Bitcoin.  By definition, such people have private keys.  Those who don’t are serfs, living on a master’s estate and at his mercy.  As a serf, you should know your place, and never expect anybody to take your opinion seriously.  How dare you come on the Bitcoin Forum and complain that it’s such an imposition to have a private key?


Logic failure.  What you said was this:


How could that even try to solve any spam problems, if it were not mandatory?  I do not expect that spammers would “opt-in”.  Had you been advocating optional SMS “verification”, you would not have suggested it to be an antispam measure.