Should I NEVER discard private keys even after spent?

[JasonXG]

I don't think you should it would be unbeneficial not to hold on and you would never get your bcc if you had done that. So keep them for airdrops and giveaways like bcc. Keeping them will cost you nothing so its well worth it.

[marky89]

Lols you cannot fool the blockchain by getting an old BTC Wallet  with private keys to get some BCH. Hehe. If you want BCH you should have a BTC balance from your wallet.

But it's true that there have been forks where an old BTC wallet can net you some free coins. I remember a couple years ago, there were a bunch of people on the forum buying old addresses. There was a website where you could check CLAM balances of old addresses you controlled, and people were bidding on them (either to dump because people were willing to sell them cheap, or to hold speculatively).

I never paid much attention at the time; I probably should have. I bet I could have gotten some free bitcoins out of it.....

[traderethereum]

About 6 months ago, I sent 2 Bitcoins from a paper wallet to Coinbase and sold the two Bitcoins for $1000 a piece.  I believe I discarded the paper wallet with the private keys on it because the wallet was spent.

If I had access to those private keys, would I have access to those Bitcoin Cash and all future forks?

Also...is this an argument to NEVER discard private keys even if the wallet is empty?

i think you can read the answer from other member that said you can not get free bitcoin cash if you don't have balance btc in any of wallet. if you have btc even for small amount, then you deserve to get free bitcoin cash and even you can get bitcoin gold by free too. i think its depend on you if you don't want to safe your old wallet if that wallet is empty. i think we can safe our private keys which only have balance inside the wallet and the old wallet can we save into other places.

[stabarjoy]

Tremendously amusing proposition. Obviously not a scam.  I will purchase.

[BTCMILLIONAIRE]

Tremendously amusing proposition. Obviously not a scam.  I will purchase.

Tremendously amusing post. Obviously a spam.

[Svelto]

You won’t be able to receive Bitcoin Gold since you spent the BTC before the fork happened.

But it will be good not to discard private keys after spending. You never know whether other airdrops happened when you still have the BTC balance.

[malikusama]

About 6 months ago, I sent 2 Bitcoins from a paper wallet to Coinbase and sold the two Bitcoins for $1000 a piece.  I believe I discarded the paper wallet with the private keys on it because the wallet was spent.

If I had access to those private keys, would I have access to those Bitcoin Cash and all future forks?

Also...is this an argument to NEVER discard private keys even if the wallet is empty?

Well the first thing is that your wallet should have bitcoin at the time of split or fork( i.e august 1) to claim you Bitcoin Cash, if you don't have at that time you can't get Bitcoin Cash.
I think you don't need the private keys in this scenario because you already sold it before the fork.