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Re: Btc address to decimal representation(256bit number)
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satashi_nokamato
on 21/03/2024, 00:23:56 UTC
There are a bit less than 2**96 private keys resulting in this and any other valid address
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Which one would you like to have?  Not only in theory but practically you can find at least 1 match for any address after 2**80 operations which consist of private key to public key to SHA-256 to RIPEMD-160, Once you do that you can find the match. Any other way if you try,  will fail because you'd need to know the private key of a matching address.

Other ways as just trying to find hash 160 collision etc,  which would be useless if you don't have the private key.