API key??!!

You should read more carefully!
Try it again: it says the API key should be in your profile IF you register to https://wordpress.com !
This is .ORG. Go to .COM, please!

Ok, excuse my ignorance, but wtf? I have a wordpress blog and I have a dashboard from which I manage it, so why would I need to register separately at wordpress.COM?

Because they want you to register somewhere before handing out keys that give access to their services? You can sign up without getting a blog, just select the “just a username, please” option

“so why would I need to register separately at wordpress.COM?”

Because that’s the only way to get it.

https://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/19/akismet-a-wordpresscom-blog-and-the-api-key/

I have a wordpress hosted blog utbtkids.wordpress.com and two other blogs, https://www.desibioscope.net and https://www.utbtkids.com.

I use the API key from my WP hosted blog for utbtkids.com for Akismet spam protection and for stats, it works beautifully.

When I tried using the key for https://www.desibioscope.net, for stats, it does not accept the key.

Any suggestions?

Looks like I had to upgrade teh version of WP I am usig on desibioscope.net and now verything is A-okay!

BTW strangelittleman, you are getting a worndeful blogging tool with col pulg in-s and if it requires you to get a free account, do so. Stop cribbing.