Quote from: aplistir on December 20, 2017, 11:11:21 AM

Public and private keys do not even have to be the same to generate the same bitcoin address.

There are 2^256 private keys, that create 2^256 public keys. BUT there are only 2^160 possible bitcoin addresses. So on average there are 2^96 (=79228162514264337593543950336) private keys that generate the SAME address.

If (and when) an address collision will happen, then it is much more likely that it will happen with different public&private key pairs than it being with two exactly same keys.

If (and when) an address collision will happen it doesn't matter if I have the second private key. With only one I reach it, right?

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