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Re: Random generation for Bitcoin
by
Anders
on 08/07/2014, 19:20:11 UTC
I don't think there can be an infinite number of merkle trees with a 1MB block size limit.

True.

It can't be any more than 28,000,000 possible merkle tree variations (8 bits per byte, 1 million bytes)

Want to convert that into base 10 for me?  My calculator won't do it.


Decimal approximation: 7.5612130194946271264814592984191480373499754082086168... × 108428839

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2^28%2C000%2C000

 Grin