150 years from now, National Geographic is going to be making TV shows about adventurers in hazmat suits digging in the landfill for the lost private key.
Those who have sufficient resources and expertise to find it know that there's obviously not going to be anything there, which means the only people who try digging for it are those incapable of actually finding it, perpetuating the myth.
But finding one of 2^256 private keys would take millions of years. This math felt correctly conservative https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2847/how-long-wo...
There’s a chance that if Moore’s Law holds, a computer might catch up after decades of continued exponential growth. But my money’s still on the trash spelunker in that race
Sounds dystopian and probably is, but also I feel like I would kinda enjoy remotely excavating trash as an occasional hobby. You know, hop on the Discord with the gang, make a battle plan, you take the copper wiring, I’ll shore up the tunnel.
There's far too much happening in the world to assume the shape of it will hold up that long, even if you're the biggest bitcoin bull.
AI/AGI/ASI, quantum and post-quantum computing, WWIII and nuclear war, the space race, etc. And that's just scratching the surface of what might happen.
I agree that it'll likely be worthless in 150 years. We just don't need any massive upheaval for that to happen.