1.) Pick one of the old abandoned Bitcoin addresses

2.) Start looking for a key match using this technique

3.) Heat death of the universe

4.) Profit!

I wonder how many of the Lastpass vaults had the private keys in the very unencrypted notes sections...

Find somewhere people look at only a small fraction of a hash?

That's mostly git commits.

Oh, that's evil.

In some places my tooling only shows 7 digits of the git SHA. I wonder how hard it would be to write something to tweak my commits until those are all the same. And I wonder how long it would take until someone noticed...