EIP-6049: Deprecate SELFDESTRUCT


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      EIP-6049: Deprecate SELFDESTRUCT
    
    
      
        
      
    
    
      
        
      
    
  

  Deprecate SELFDESTRUCT by discouraging its use and warning about a potential future behavior change.

  	Authors	William Entriken (@fulldecent)
	Created	2022-11-27


  


  

  
    Table of Contents

    	Abstract
	Motivation
	Specification
	Rationale
	Backwards Compatibility
	Security Considerations
	Copyright



  


  
      
      
         Abstract
      
      
    


This EIP deprecates the SELFDESTRUCT opcode and warns against its use. A breaking change to this functionality is likely to come in the future.

  
    
      
      
         Motivation
      
      
    


Discussions about how to change SELFDESTRUCT are ongoing. But there is a strong consensus that something will change.

  
    
      
      
         Specification
      
      
    


Documentation of the SELFDESTRUCT opcode is updated to warn against its use and to note that a breaking change may be forthcoming.

  
    
      
      
         Rationale
      
      
    


As time goes on, the cost of doing something increases, because any change to SELFDESTRUCT will be a breaking change.


The Ethereum Blog and other official sources have not provided any warning to developers about a potential forthcoming change.

  
    
      
      
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This EIP updates non-normative text in the Yellow Paper. No changes to clients is applicable.

  
    
      
      
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None.

  
    
      
      
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Copyright and related rights waived via CC0.


  Citation

  Please cite this document as:

  
  William Entriken (@fulldecent), "EIP-6049: Deprecate SELFDESTRUCT," Ethereum Improvement Proposals, no. 6049, November 2022. [Online serial]. Available: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-6049.






      
    
  

  

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