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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: The case for moving from a 160 bit to a 256 bit Bitcoin address
by
BurtW
on 01/05/2017, 15:55:28 UTC
That's a smart point ! If we can count on the fact that there will never be a hard fork changing this total, of course.

Assuming we stick to the 64 bit size for a value, keep the 21 million Bitcoin cap, and we expand to the maximum number of decimal points offered by a 64 bit number we could comfortably expand the resolution to

264 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616
      =   2,100,000,000,000,000,000 "millisatoshis"

So a factor of 1000 or about 210

So that would lead to about 261 addresses containing a millisatoshi each.