I know brute force guessing a Bitcoin key is like an astronomical lottery ticket, but the odds can't be much worse than extracting a working hard drive from 15,000 tons of decade-old trash.
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