Run out of addresses ?? i believe addresses are infinite
They are not infinite, there is just so many possible addresses out there that for all intents and purposes, it is infinite.
Please can you clarify more? is the statement "running out of addresses" true or false ?
Its false. There are 2
161 possible addresses. 2
160 for the way the hash ripemd160 works and double that for the two possible prefixes '1' and '3'.
Even if every person (assuming 10 billion) on earth uses a million addresses per second it will last ~ 9,268,782,580,738,856,660,348,077 years
Thank you , its clear enough.