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Re:Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme by p1mrx on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:36PM (#37918581)
> an ip address for every grain of sand in the universe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe estimates 10^53 kg in the observable universe.

10^53 kg / 2^128 = 10^14 kg per address, though I have no idea what fraction of the universe is sand.

In practice, the number of allocations is much smaller because IPv6 is effectively a 64 bit address space, with the second half reserved for edge networks.

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