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Re: What happens if 2 people generate the same bitcoin wallet address?
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Rluner
on 19/11/2013, 16:32:38 UTC
This would be called a "collision" and is highly unlikely.

Keys are 256 bit in length and are hashed in a 160 bit address.(2^160th power) Divide it by the world population and you have about 215,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 addresses per capita.(2.15 x 10^38)