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

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-would-it-take-a-large-computer-to-crack-a-private-key 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