It's now May 1 2019, anybody still hunting BTC private keys?
actually with 2017-18 increased adoption and market filling with newcomers there has been an increased number of people who started wasting their time "searching" for private keys they can "steal"! i usually see new projects on GitHub's explore popping up
It is not pointless. The odds for lotto lottery also are very small yet people stiil keep winning.
take the odds of winning a lottery, divide them by millions. then divide that result by millions, and continue calculating that for the rest of your life. you still haven't come close to the odds of finding a private key with a balance in it.