From 04653f444d703d74083e8ae30ec13039812e6141 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kishan Sagathiya <kishansagathiya@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:15:18 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] don't force trie value to be nil

---
 lib/trie/trie.go | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/trie/trie.go b/lib/trie/trie.go
index d7cfe84473..89e01b35a8 100644
--- a/lib/trie/trie.go
+++ b/lib/trie/trie.go
@@ -333,11 +333,6 @@ func (t *Trie) Put(keyLE, value []byte) {
 
 func (t *Trie) insertKeyLE(keyLE, value []byte, deletedMerkleValues map[string]struct{}) {
 	nibblesKey := codec.KeyLEToNibbles(keyLE)
-	if len(value) == 0 {
-		// Force value to be inserted to nil since we don't
-		// differentiate between nil and empty values.
-		value = nil
-	}
 	t.root, _, _ = t.insert(t.root, nibblesKey, value, deletedMerkleValues)
 }