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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Altcoin Discussion => Topic started by: virtualdn on January 12, 2014, 09:57:00 PM



Title: Question about paper wallets
Post by: virtualdn on January 12, 2014, 09:57:00 PM
Which are the chances of generating 2 identical paper wallets (addresses) for 2 different users? kind of scary


Title: Re: Question about paper wallets
Post by: Snail2 on January 12, 2014, 10:25:15 PM
There are 2^160 possible BTC addresses. The chance to generate two identical addresses depends on the number of attempts so you can calculate the probability as <number of attempts> / 2^160.