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If there was the inverse of gas to delete data from the EVM (ik, doesn’t affect history), what are the implications?

Open question is where the ETH comes from.

Doesn’t effect history, but decreases size of the EVM you need to run calls.

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That’s just for a contract, I mean in general.

What's more general than a contract? :D

IIRC the active storage slots are a fairly small percentage of total storage required for a full node.

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You could delete an nft. So if you’re airdropped something useless you could get paid to remove it from the EVM

What does "delete" mean, though? NFTs are not native, and "delete" can mean anything in the context of a contract. More importantly: Are you actually releasing meaningful storage from full node operators?

I mean I don't think there is a positive result from "delete" operations to full nodes, and might actually be negative--especially in the context of migrating to verkle trees (this is why SELFDESTRUCT delete side effect behaviour had to be deprecated).

That’s the idea yeah.

The problem is right now there is no incentive to make a tx that deletes because it only costs money.