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Re: How many [btc]-addresses can be created for each seed phrase?
by
hosemary
on 24/04/2025, 09:09:46 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (4) ,Pmalek (3) ,pooya87 (2) ,Mia Chloe (1) ,nc50lc (1)
Assume that you have a wallet with standard derivaion path of m/44'/0'/0'.
Your addresses are generated at m/44'/0'/0'/x/y in which x is the change index and y is the address index.

The address index can be from 0 to 232 - 1 and the change index can be either 0 or 1.
Therefore, you can generate 233 addresses at the derivation path of m/44'/0'/0'.

You can also change the account index and have more addresses generated from the same seed phrase. For example, you can generate a completely different wallet at the derivation path of m/44'/0'/1'.  (The account index can be from 0 to 2 32 - 1.)

So, with changing the account index, the change index and the address index, you can generate 2^65 addresses from a single seed phrase and you can still generate more addresses with using non-standard derivation paths.