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Keep in mind that while there are almost valid private keys, there are actually less Bitcoin addresses. For example singlesig native Segwit addresses (bc1q...) are a bech32 representation of a 160 bit hash.

This means that there are only different singlesig native Segwit addresses. So the probability of guessing a private key for a certain Segwit address is actually .

So if we adjust the reply from @shafemtol to calculate how many addresses would have to be generated for a collision:


We get private keys that would have to be generated for there to be a 0.1% chance of a Segwit address collision.

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So each person would have to generate approximately or 6.7 trillion keys for there to be a 0.1% chance of a Segwit address collision.

So time to switch to taproot? hmm

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Thanks for that important clarification

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