<p>There's absolutely nothing you need to do per address, so the number of addresses has no effect. You only need to process each transaction.</p>

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<p>By ridiculous I mean something absolutely absurd. 1 million+ addresses. Like say if Amazon had started to accept payments, how could they possibly keep up? Bitcoind probably can't keep up? How would I go about solving this? How does SatoshiDice or Blockchain deal with this?</p>

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No of bitcoin addresses doesn't matter. Even a simple computer / laptop / smartphone can handle billions of addresses.
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How to handle a ridiculous amount of receiving addresses?
John T
# How to handle a ridiculous amount of receiving addresses?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-12-25)

By ridiculous I mean something absolutely absurd. 1 million+ addresses. Like say if Amazon had started to accept payments, how could they possibly keep up? Bitcoind probably can't keep up? How would I go about solving this? How does SatoshiDice or Blockchain deal with this?

**Tags:** transactions, wallet, bitcoind, address, receiving

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: No of bitcoin addresses doesn't matter. Even a simple computer / laptop / smartphone can handle billions of addresses.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2013-12-25. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

There's absolutely nothing you need to do per address, so the number of addresses has no effect. You only need to process each transaction.


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