[Townley]

A single person sifting through 15,000,000 pounds of trash at a rate of one pound per minute would take 28 restless years

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

[unyttigfjelltol]

Finding the drive is only part of the required luck.