Timeline for According to BIP44 each HD wallet have a finite number of 2^32 addresses, Why is that the case?
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| Sep 19, 2021 at 1:01 | comment | added | Adolin | Actually I know that 2 billion keys are definitely enough (although not a good thing for privacy of shops and businesses who use Bitcoin wallet xPub for their public key derivation because in theory someone could discover all their public addresses) but my question is why limit it to 2 billion when we can have infinite amount of addresses? | |
| Sep 19, 2021 at 0:22 | history | answered | Pieter Wuille | CC BY-SA 4.0 |