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Quote from: drrussellshane on December 27, 2013, 09:24:29 AM

Quote from: empoweoqwj on December 25, 2013, 06:17:53 AM

Quote from: jarhed on December 25, 2013, 05:54:24 AM

No particular wallet in mind.

I was under the impression wallet address's are limited to 100 Huh

One might be ..... but they are all just software programs ... each one can do what its programmer wants.

Or maybe one has 100 addresses as "default"?

But there is, to my knowledge, a hard limit to the amount of addresses that can be generated and stored in a wallet.

Did you really mean "a hard limit" or mean to say "no hard limit"?

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Quote from: empoweoqwj on December 25, 2013, 06:17:53 AM

Quote from: jarhed on December 25, 2013, 05:54:24 AM

No particular wallet in mind.

I was under the impression wallet address's are limited to 100 Huh

One might be ..... but they are all just software programs ... each one can do what its programmer wants.

Or maybe one has 100 addresses as "default"?

100 addresses and private keys are generated upon initial startup of the reference client (Bitcoin-QT).

So, if you backup your wallet immediately after startup, it will have the first 100 addresses that were automatically generated.

After the first 100 addresses are used, new addresses are created, but won't be a part of the first backup.

This is why it is important to back up your wallet often if you use Bitcoin-QT.

But there is, to my knowledge, a hard limit to the amount of addresses that can be generated and stored in a wallet.

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Quote from: Qoheleth on December 25, 2013, 02:38:01 PM

Quote from: jarhed on December 25, 2013, 05:54:24 AM

No particular wallet in mind.

I was under the impression wallet address's are limited to 100 Huh

The limit you're probably thinking of has to do with the number of addresses the reference client (bitcoind/bitcoin-qt) creates ahead of time. See, in addition to all of the addresses you've generated, your wallet.dat (if you're using bitcoin-qt) contains an extra 100 addresses which will be used for the change from your transactions. This is why regular backups of your wallet.dat are so important; after you use those 100 addresses, bitcoind will start to use addresses that weren't in the backup, and things could get hairy.

Great explanation. I don't use bitcoin-qt so didn't know about the 100 address creation thing, but makes perfect sense.

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Quote from: Qoheleth on December 25, 2013, 02:38:01 PM

Quote from: jarhed on December 25, 2013, 05:54:24 AM

No particular wallet in mind.

I was under the impression wallet address's are limited to 100 Huh

The limit you're probably thinking of has to do with the number of addresses the reference client (bitcoind/bitcoin-qt) creates ahead of time. See, in addition to all of the addresses you've generated, your wallet.dat (if you're using bitcoin-qt) contains an extra 100 addresses which will be used for the change from your transactions. This is why regular backups of your wallet.dat are so important; after you use those 100 addresses, bitcoind will start to use addresses that weren't in the backup, and things could get hairy.

Thanx.

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Quote from: jarhed on December 25, 2013, 05:54:24 AM

No particular wallet in mind.

I was under the impression wallet address's are limited to 100 Huh

The limit you're probably thinking of has to do with the number of addresses the reference client (bitcoind/bitcoin-qt) creates ahead of time. See, in addition to all of the addresses you've generated, your wallet.dat (if you're using bitcoin-qt) contains an extra 100 addresses which will be used for the change from your transactions. This is why regular backups of your wallet.dat are so important; after you use those 100 addresses, bitcoind will start to use addresses that weren't in the backup, and things could get hairy.

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Quote from: acegilz on December 25, 2013, 10:07:36 AM

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Reference?

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If I'm understanding the MultiBit source correctly we're limited to 2^31 - 1 bytes for the wallet files which includes addresses and private keys.

Edit since not even clear to myself: This only applies for the Multibit client.

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There is no maximum limit for each wallet can handle, it all depends upon the site programmer how much he can handle it.

But if you plan to use from bitcoind, you can handle unlimited.

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Quote from: jarhed on December 25, 2013, 05:54:24 AM

No particular wallet in mind.

I was under the impression wallet address's are limited to 100 Huh

One might be ..... but they are all just software programs ... each one can do what its programmer wants.

Or maybe one has 100 addresses as "default"?

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No particular wallet in mind.

I was under the impression wallet address's are limited to 100 Huh

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There is no maximum.
But gradually your software will become slower with more addresses and transactions.
Thousands or ten thousands of addresses shouldn't be a problem.
But I suggest to do your own experiments.

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Depends on the wallet software. Which wallet are you asking about?

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