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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: I generated an address that already exists
by
mandelbert
on 20/10/2013, 07:56:51 UTC
Are you *sure* you didn't own that address already?

If not, it is VASTLY more probable you (and however generated this address before) just unearthed a bug in bitcoin's PRNG. Could you give more details - which OS and OpenSSL you have installed?

I find it *extremely* hard to believe you actually caused a collision. Not now, not in a 1000 years.