Re: A new era of searching for existing Bitcoin addresses or a little discovery.
"It sounds fascinating, but there are more combinations of this number than there are atoms in the universe."
It's not true, people keep repeating this nonsense, which was once used as a figure of speech to emphasize how many combinations there are... you don't actually believe it ?
Why do you think this is not true? According to online sources, scientists estimate that there are only 1080 atoms in the observable universe.
Estimated number of atoms in the observable universe: ~10^80
Total possible Bitcoin addresses: 2^160 ≈ 1.46 × 10^48
Now, dividing the number of Bitcoin addresses by the number of atoms in the universe:
(1.46 × 10^48) / (10^80) = 1.46 × 10^-32
This means the number of Bitcoin addresses is about 10^-32 times smaller than the number of atoms in the universe. In other words, there are vastly more atoms than Bitcoin addresses.