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Re: Example of BTC collision (2 different priv key to the same BTC address)
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bartekjagoda
on 25/09/2019, 18:13:56 UTC
can you just say how many private keys do you have to the same address? And also how many addresses do you have with more than one private key?

we are not "mapping" keys to addresses to have 1:X ratio. we are hashing the public key which returns a random result so there is no fixed ratio. there is a chance of collision because the hash size (160 bits) is smaller than the number of private keys (a little less than 256 bit) but so far nobody has found any collisions and will not find any for a very long time. anybody who claims otherwise without proof is most probably lying.

As for the ratio I knoe that this ratio could not be. There just ann average chance that one address could have 2^96 private keys.
I asked "how many" because this guy wrote that he had such keys, but didnot want to give the example and did not say the reason why he cuuld not tell:


Regarding your original question i must admit I have found such addressess and possess the private key for it, but cannot for various reason share which one and how I came in possession of it.

/KX

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