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Board Bitcoin Discussion
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Wallet "overlap"
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88mph
on 16/09/2023, 17:10:16 UTC
⭐ Merited by o_e_l_e_o (4) ,ETFbitcoin (3) ,NeuroticFish (2) ,garlonicon (1) ,vapourminer (1) ,DdmrDdmr (1)
I'm curious about the wallet "address space".

We all know that with a 12, 18, or 24 word seed one can generate a Bitcoin wallet in an "address space" that is so large that it would be, essentially, impossible to guess. Right?

A few questions:

Does a 24 word seed phrase fully cover the entire "address space" such that if all combinations of seed words are used, all possible wallet addresses will be mapped / addressed?

What about passphrases? Does the use of a passphrase open up new "address space" or does it map to an address in the original address space, such at seed phrase X without a passphrase may map to (be equivalent to) seed phrase Y with passphrase Z? Or seed phrase M with passphrase N maps to seed phrase O with passphrase P?

And what about the following BIPs which talk about various forms of creating sub-accounts/sub-wallets based on a primary wallet seed? Do these result in "overlap" with the original 24 word "address space"?
   https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0044.mediawiki
   https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0084.mediawiki
   https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0085.mediawiki

Sorry if I'm not technically precise in how I'm asking these questions, but hopefully the general idea comes across.

Thanks.