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May 16, 2015, 07:38:35 PM
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I am a noob in this area.

How many addresses can be generated from a seed using BIP32?
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May 17, 2015, 04:42:49 AM
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Quote from: cafucafucafu on May 16, 2015, 07:38:35 PM
I am a noob in this area.

How many addresses can be generated from a seed using BIP32?

I don't see any practical limit.  Each node in the tree can have at most 232 children but it seems you can just keep adding more and more levels as needed.
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