Is it possible to send one satoshi to every bitcoin address?

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As a random whim, I want to see if it's possible to send one satoshi to every bitcoin address that's ever been used. How much would that be? I'm betting the transaction fee would be a lot more, though. Is this even possible? How would I do it?

Hm.. kind of multicast. I am not sure how useful this could be, but it is not possible now. You need to create as many transactions required. — vi.su., Feb 08 '13 at 06:31

theymos · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-08T13:27:33.320

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Yes. There are currently about 10 million unique addresses in the block chain, so 0.1 BTC would be enough to send a satoshi to each address. The transaction data would be about 340 MB. The network's anti-spam protections would make this project either very expensive (due to transaction fees) or very time-consuming.

edited Feb 08 '13 at 13:27

answered Feb 08 '13 at 13:20

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Thanks! So it's infeasible. =( As an estimate, how much do you think the transaction fee would be? – lurf jurv Feb 08 '13 at 15:55
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@lurfjurv It's not infeasible. The fee might be about 170 BTC, though this depends on many factors. – theymos Feb 08 '13 at 17:20
How do you know there are 10 million unique addresses? – Shamoon Nov 27 '13 at 21:31
@Shamoon I gathered that data from the block chain. – theymos Nov 27 '13 at 21:51
@theymos Is it up on blockchain.info anywhere? – Shamoon Nov 27 '13 at 21:53
@Shamoon I don't know. I didn't get the info from a website. – theymos Nov 27 '13 at 22:43
It's weird. I got a 1 satoshi transaction from 1Enjoy1C4bYBr3tN4sMKxvvJDqG8NkdR4Z. You don't need to provide a transaction fee, but it might be quite a while before a miner decides to process it. – Chloe Feb 23 '14 at 20:45

Is it possible to send one satoshi to every bitcoin address?

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