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Re: Is it possible to generate every address from one seed
by
odolvlobo
on 17/10/2019, 20:01:38 UTC
Is it possible to calculate (theoretically) , how many common addresses could derive from the seeds?

If there are 2048^12 different seed combinations (in 12-word BIP39) and each has  2^256 keys then we have 6.3X10^116 different addresses.
We have altogether in Bitcoin 2^160=1,46x10^48 different addresses, which is a smaller number than the first one.

How many of them are common?

A BIP-39 12-word phrase can represent 2128 seeds (it contains a checksum). As noted above, an HD wallet can normally generate 265 private keys from a seed. Thus, the 12-word phrase can generate 2193 private keys, which is 233 times the 2160 possible addresses.