EIP-4758: Deactivate selfdestruct

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Here’s an alternative idea which would keep the revival/upgrade pattern working:

Almost self-destructing SELFDESTRUCT → DEACTIVATE

TLDR: The selfdestruct↔revive pattern stays working, but instead of deleting accounts, we use a special value in the nonce field to distinguish deactivated accounts. From the motivation of EIP-4758: The SELFDESTRUCT opcode requires large changes to the state of an account, in particular removing all code and storage. This will not be possible in the future with Verkle trees: Each account will be stored in many different account keys, which will not be obviously connected to the root account…