Re: Honored Veteran of Cryptocurrency Battles. Is it possible to monetize my past ?
I have seen posts on this forum on occasion from people looking to buy the private keys to old addresses which used to contain large (by today's standards) amounts of bitcoin. The only reasons I can imagine that someone would want to buy such a private key would either be to lend credibility to a lie that they have been involved in bitcoin for longer than they really have, probably so they can attempt to scam someone ("I've been involved in bitcoin for years and handled hundreds of BTC, look at this signed message as proof!"), or so they can claim that those old transactions represent bitcoin that they have sold, probably for tax evasion purposes or perhaps if there are debt collectors after them.
You just broke some scammers dream by describing the secret of buying private keys. Sometime its really interesting to see their activity how they apply all their tricks to make some easy money. Hence, they can use it for right purpose but they never do that. Is it possible now, or maybe in the future, to somehow make money for those who still has access to these wallet addresses 
Maybe someone has some crazy idea how one could monetize all this?
Its better to forget past which will give nothing but pain. You are not the one who miss their golden days but now seeing the potentiality of bitcointalk as a living suspect. Maybe someone has some crazy idea how one could monetize all this?