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Re: Is it possible to generate every address from one seed
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pooya87
on 17/10/2019, 03:54:14 UTC
⭐ Merited by joniboini (2) ,HeRetiK (1) ,ETFbitcoin (1) ,o_e_l_e_o (1)
I would like to know is there a limit to how many bitcoin public keys be generated using one seed phrase. Is it unlimited?
It is unlimited

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If it's not limited then this would mean that wallets with different seeds would cause a clash of their addresses. Am I right?
You really gave a good point however I think there must have an explanation. I will wait for others answer.

it is not unlimited, nothing in bitcoin is.
you are still generating a private key in a finite space (from 1 to n which is a little smaller than 2256) so it is limited by that number.

as for the second part it is talking about collision. or in other words a collision in the truncated HMAC-SHA512 digest which is not going to happen in our lifetime. it is the same argument about "can two person generate the same random private key".