Quote from: seoincorporation on May 09, 2022, 07:59:34 PM

you could try for years and get an empty address all the way.

Correction: You will get nothing but empty addresses.

Quote from: jerry0 on May 09, 2022, 08:33:23 PM

Can someone show me with numbers... and not like to the power of x ... the total amount of btc seed phrases there are right now... compared to the total possible number of possible btc addresses?

12 word seed phrases (2¹²⁸):

Code:

340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456

Addresses (2¹⁶⁰) of each type:

Code:

1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976

In terms of how many of each have currently been created, then we have no way of knowing for sure.

Quote from: jerry0 on May 09, 2022, 08:33:23 PM

Would someone who generated a seed but never had any btc sent to their wallet even count as an active address?

No. We have no way of knowing which addresses have been generated but never funded.

Quote from: jerry0 on May 09, 2022, 08:33:23 PM

But how would that person even know what their address is if they never check to see what their receiving address is on their nano ledger? i believe that with electrum after generating a seed phrase, the default receive address is right there?

Checking an address locally leaves no traces on the blockchain, so the network has no idea if you have generated an address.

Quote from: jerry0 on May 09, 2022, 08:33:23 PM

Surely you could hit some type of coin right?

No.