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RE: Bitcoin running out of addresses? Programmer explains.

in #bitcoin7 years ago

Very interesting. Something very similar is used to generate GUIDs (globally unique identifier) for regular databases where you need unique IDs for a large dataset. Microsoft SQL has a function just for this purpose. Loved the content, regards

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Yep, GUIDs can be timebased, so because time goes on forever they will never be the same