Topic: What if all possible bitcoin wallets are owned? - page 3. (Read 3048 times)
It IS possible for one person to generate every single private key for all addresses, but this would take more than billions of years to do. There are limited amount of bitcoin address yes but when this happens it will be MUCH longer time from now.
It is my understanding that bitcoin wallets are created through a hash table with 64 bits of alphanumeric characters. What happens when all wallets are completely used up? What happens then? Just a curiosity question.
In all likelihood the universe will have ended thousands billions of years before anyone (or any group) could generate them all.
And if they did in some alternate reality with different laws of physics, they'd just be reused.
If it ever looked like it was a physical possibility, doubling the length would change that.
It is my understanding that bitcoin wallets are created through a hash table with 64 bits of alphanumeric characters. What happens when all wallets are completely used up? What happens then? Just a curiosity question.
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