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Re: Is it possible for two private keys/clients to generate identical BTC address ?
by
david19801
on 19/02/2011, 21:02:38 UTC
Nice move, you win Wink

Going back the the OP question.  I'm new here, but from what i've heard a BTC address consists of a public and private component.

What would be the security risks of having a pack of every public key publicly available.  Then, when creating a new individual address, the public part of the newly generated address can be checked for uniqueness against the pack of public keys?  Thereby guaranteeing uniqueness of the whole address...