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deletion of a non-existent account overwrites with 0s #448
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Writing down here after a talk with @jsign : this stuff is only needed for:
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In geth, there is an upcoming branch in which an account can be deleted if it doesn't exist. An actual call to deletion is made, which means that the account is ovewritten with 0s. Now, it never happened before since a non-existent account would not be "deleted", it would just be ignored. But it seems that in this new branch, an actual deletion command is sent.
This raises the question, independent of this geth branch: if an account is deleted, that doesn't exist in the tree, should it be "created" and then overwritten with 0s, or just ignored ?
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