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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Chances of a collision
by
qwk
on 30/07/2015, 17:18:05 UTC
This image should at least be posted once in every "but it's possible for someone to create the same address, right?"-thread:
*snipped image*
The image says 2^256 though
Isn't it just 2^160 for BTC?
2^160 addresses, right. Private keys, no, that's almost 2^256.
No use generating an address if you don't have the private key to it Wink

It is more likely that the Earth is destroyed in the next 5 seconds, than that a collision occur in the next millenium.