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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: I found a collision. The hard part is proving it.
by
bob123
on 12/02/2018, 12:23:51 UTC
If one private key and diffirent address. Can it possible?


Actually its the other way around.
A private keys (ECDSA) has 256 bit -> 2^256 possible private keys.
An "address" is a 160 bit long hash -> 2^160 possible addresses.

So on average there are 2^96 (256-160) private keys which correspond to one address.
Sounds like a lot. But nothing someone should be concerned about.