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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Possibility of collision
by
theymos
on 14/11/2010, 07:52:33 UTC
If every person on Earth makes ten addresses per second for 20 years (2x1018 total addresses), then the probability that two of these addresses collide is about 1.57x10-12.

I'm using the formula here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID#Random_UUID_probability_of_duplicates