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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: What about those bitcoins that are LOST?
by
Trent Russell
on 03/08/2015, 17:10:15 UTC
how can a bitcoin address have many private keys :O
every bitcoin address has just one private key!!!
No. There are 2256 private keys
And 2160 addresses (hashes of compressed and uncompressed public keys)
So, there are ~296 private keys for each address

This is correct. Anyone surprised by this should read about the Pigeonhole Principle.