Can you elaborate on your math? Why would it take more than 100 Earth's worth of atoms? If, 2^160 < 1.5 x 10^50
I really shouldn't be posting after my bed time. Somehow I decided that 10
50 X 100 = 10
48. I've removed it. It was not the great example that I thought it would be.
It's still not horrible considering it would take more than 100 atoms to store the necessary address AND key, and that nobody is ever going to turn the entire Earth into a database, but it failed to make the specific point I thought I was making.