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How many [btc]-addresses can be created for each seed phrase?
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m2017
on 24/04/2025, 06:16:34 UTC
Recently I encountered one "amazing phenomenon".

In the Trezor Suit app, I wanted to create a new BTC-address, but I couldn't do it, because the new segwit address was the 11th in a row (i.e. 10 addresses had already been created before). This application issued a message that the limit for creating addresses (of this type) was exceeded. The rest can be created (for example, legacy and other).

This raises the question: How many BTC-addresses (of a certain type) can be created for each seed phrase? Is there really a limit of 10 addresses one type (I don't think so), after which it is necessary to generate a new seed phrase and start over? Or is this related to the trezor devices and their trezor suit app?

Also, another "inconvenient" feature of trezor is that it is impossible to create a new BTC-address if at least 1 sat. has not been received to the previous one. That is, it is impossible to create, for example, 5 different addresses (of the same type) at once, but only as funds are received to the previous one.
As far as I remember, in electrum you can create BTC-addresses without similar restrictions. 

I would appreciate your answers and would like to hear your opinion.

P.S.
I believe this question is more related to bitcoin technical aspects and I am asking this question in this section rather than in the section dedicated to hardware wallets.