How do wallets know that address is not duplicated if I'm going to make one?

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Let's assume that I'm going to make a wallet through Electrum that has some Bitcoin address.

So then, How Electrum do know that is not duplicated(Already owned by another person)?

Are we just relying on big numbers(2^160)? or Does Bitcoin system has some function to prevent duplicate?

Thank you for listening my question. No offense! Just curious about the function or how it works!

bitcoinlearner

Posted 2017-11-16T13:14:00.430

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Question was closed 2017-11-16T14:32:03.267

Answers

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Are we just relying on big numbers(2^160)?

Yes

or Does Bitcoin system has some function to prevent duplicate?

No

amaclin

Posted 2017-11-16T13:14:00.430

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