Silly question: are old, legacy, pre-BCH fork Bitcoin worth keeping untouched/unspent for some reason? Are they expected to gain in value as "collector's items" compared to the more recent ones?
Came up in a conversation with a friend who hodls 3 such BTC (from 2016). Bought them for $1500, now worth $300,000.
I gave him my usual "keep them if you can, spend them if you must" reply, but I never thought of old coins gaining in value...
Nope!.. for one simple reason.. The PRIVATE KEY belonging to the UTXO is no longer PRIVATE.
So for me to take control of those "old, legacy, pre-BCH" Bitcoin UTXO would mean someone else knows the PRIVATE KEY... remember "NYKNYC" also means "OYKTPK" (
Only
You
Know
The
Private
Key)
let it sit for now.
you can move 2.9999 btc out of old fork address. then fix the bch. but at 1.5k it is not worth fucking with the 300k part.