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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,336 Private keys per bitcoin address? on: May 14, 2021, 03:20:06 AM
Hi guess just doing some math on keys to address ratio's. We were always led to believe that their was 1 private key per bitcoin address. This is not even close. If I am wrong please tell me how:

There are: 115,792,089,237,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,852,837,564,279,074,904,382,605,163,141,518,161,494,336 possible private keys that are valid for bitcoin addresses

There are: 1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976 possible valid bitcoin addresses (2^160)

This means their are: 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,336 private keys per Bitcoin address

This means that if I have a newly generated Bitcoin address that I created by generating a valid public key converting to public key to address, their will be 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,336 other private keys that will end up with the same result (address).

Like I said if I am wrong tell me!
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