Quote from: nullius on February 11, 2018, 02:52:01 AM

Quote from: longlivecapitalism on February 11, 2018, 02:17:32 AM

I'm not sure a discussion over whether I am using Bitcoin or not is worth having with a person who doesn't have a phone.

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.

Quote from: longlivecapitalism on February 11, 2018, 02:17:32 AM

Written from my phone Grin

Thats 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 dont are serfs, living on a masters 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 its such an imposition to have a private key?

Quote from: longlivecapitalism on February 11, 2018, 02:17:32 AM

Well, for starters, I don't care if it's mandatory or not. Which is why I added it as a PS, an afterthought if you will,

Logic failure. What you said was this:

Quote from: longlivecapitalism on February 10, 2018, 04:09:58 PM

PS: The phone validation would solve lots of problems with spammers in this forum. Just saying.

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.

Mate, are you serious? I have a lot of altcoin wallets, just no Bitcoin wallets. I didn't know it was a prerequisite to have a Bitcoin wallet to be able to regain your account in bitcointalk after someone has hacked it, maybe it should be on the registration page. In fact, even comparing the two, having a bitcoin wallet and a phone number, makes you look like a fool. What percentage of the world population has a Bitcoin wallet and is it bigger than those who have a phone number? Even assuming that because I don't have a Bitcoin wallet I actually keep Bitcoin in exchanges is idiotic since I never even suggested such a thing. Bitcoin is the way to exchange my fiat into altcoins and vice versa but of course, someone so stuck on Bitcoin would never understand that Grin

Again, my PS was just a suggestion, to be considered. I already told you that. The logic failure is yours. I already told you that linking an account to a phone number would be beneficial to me and many users in here. Just call us dinosaurs for having a phone still, I don't care. The truth of the matter is that this is an easy way to prevent account hacking. Whether it can actually benefit the moderators from lowering the number of spam accounts, requires a bigger conversation. I believe it can. But I am talking about two separate things here and there's a reason I suggested it as an afterthought, which you just don't want to or cannot understand. That's okay. Not everyone can understand the way I'm thinking Roll Eyes

"The Bitcoin Forum is for users of Bitcoin"

That's a load of crap and you know it. Just check the number of posts in the altcoins section. I don't come here to read news and analysis about Bitcoin, I come here for the altcoin section. And if there was a way to make a poll about the reasons people are in this forum, you'd see that despite the name, people come here for different reasons than that. Only people who have yet to scratch the surface of this forum think that all these users come here because of Bitcoin. Are you one of these people Cheesy

Edit: LoyceV, I will give some thought to your suggestion on the matter of the paper wallet. However, I believe that a forum such as bitcointalk should offer its members some sort of extra protection. I've been in forums that have 2FA as an option and they're definitely smaller than this one, so I don't know what the big deal is about doing this or having the option (again, I'm suggesting it to be optional) to link your phone number to your account to make sure it's not easily hackable.