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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Numbers of bitcoin address is greater than all sands on earth
by
stompix
on 13/02/2019, 16:26:03 UTC
I am pretty sure that is completely wrong. As we know, there are around 32 million bitcoin addresses. Accodring to National Public Radio, there are around 7.5 x 10^18 grains of sand. This means that whoever said such bullshit was wrong for more than a billion. Quite a huge mistake, if you ask me. Such comparisons don't make sense anyway, because a grain of sand is nothing and bitcoin address has certain meaning and purpose.

There are 32 million addresses WITH a balance.
God knows how many addresses are in wallets with a balance but have never been used.

The OP is talking about the number of possible addresses.