Quote from: casascius on February 03, 2012, 04:04:43 AM

Quote from: Hexadecibel on February 03, 2012, 03:12:47 AM

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This will never happen.

Excellent... ummm... how does that work then?

It's a probability thing. THe probability of it happening is so low as to be negligible.

Even if you could generate a trillion addresses every second for the rest of your life, generating someone else's address is still less probable than the chance that Barack Obama will pick you up as a hitchhiker, take you to a gas station, where you'll buy the winning lottery ticket for Mega Millions at 12:12pm on 12/12/12 with a ten-dollar bill that fell out of an overhead helicopter into your shirt pocket while the Pope is simultaneously being struck by lightning.

How long would it take the super-ist super-computer to generate & save 1/10 of all possible addresses? .0686 btc bounty!