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Re: Generating and Storing ALL keys
by
HCP
on 11/05/2021, 00:00:29 UTC
⭐ Merited by ETFbitcoin (1)
Sorry for my lack of understanding on the matter, I know there is 115792089237316195423570985008687907852837564279074904382605163141518161494336 Keys but could this be done?
Now... do the math on 115792089237316195423570985008687907852837564279074904382605163141518161494336 * 256

That is how many bits of storage you would need to store ALL the keys, in their most basic 256 bit state.

That would be:
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29642774844752946028434172162224104410437116074403984394101141506025761187823616

which in bytes:
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29642774844752946028434172162224104410437116074403984394101141506025761187823616

which in terabytes is:
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~29642774844752946028434172162224104410437116074403984394101141506025

For reference, there are estimated to be only 7500000000000000000000 grains of sand on earth. So, how many terabytes do you have to spare? Wink


or is the number of keys so large that even with 1 million servers with database nodes this could not be done?
^^This.