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Re: What stops people creating the same bitcoin address?
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Velkro
on 07/10/2015, 10:44:47 UTC
The chance for an address collision to happen is nonzero but extremely small, since there are a total of 2256 private keys and 2160 valid bitcoin addresses. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104461.0;all could help you understand it better how tiny the chance is.
far more common is to random number generator is faulty, so its generating same addresses
happened couple times before