Rebased the branch n updated address types n added comment

execution/proof.go

@@ -9,14 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"golang.org/x/crypto/sha3"
 )
 
-// Account struct to represent the account in the Merkle proof
-type Account struct {
-	Nonce       uint64
-	Balance     *big.Int
-	StorageRoot [32]byte
-	CodeHash    [32]byte
-}
-
 // EIP1186AccountProofResponse for account proof encoding
 type EIP1186AccountProofResponse struct {
 	Nonce       uint64
@@ -100,7 +92,8 @@ func pathsMatch(p1 []byte, s1 int, p2 []byte, s2 int) bool {
 	return true
 }
 
-func getRestPath(p []byte, s int) string {
+// dead code
+func GetRestPath(p []byte, s int) string {
 	var ret string
 	for i := s; i < len(p)*2; i++ {
 		n := getNibble(p, i)
@@ -113,7 +106,7 @@ func isEmptyValue(value []byte) bool {
 	emptyAccount := Account{
 		Nonce:       0,
 		Balance:     big.NewInt(0),
-		StorageRoot: [32]byte{0x56, 0xe8, 0x1f, 0x17, 0x1b, 0xcc, 0x55, 0xa6, 0xff, 0x83, 0x45, 0xe6, 0x92, 0xc0, 0xf8, 0x6e, 0x5b, 0x48, 0xe0, 0x1b, 0x99, 0x6c, 0xad, 0xc0, 0x01, 0x62, 0x2f, 0xb5, 0xe3, 0x63, 0xb4, 0x21},
+		StorageHash: [32]byte{0x56, 0xe8, 0x1f, 0x17, 0x1b, 0xcc, 0x55, 0xa6, 0xff, 0x83, 0x45, 0xe6, 0x92, 0xc0, 0xf8, 0x6e, 0x5b, 0x48, 0xe0, 0x1b, 0x99, 0x6c, 0xad, 0xc0, 0x01, 0x62, 0x2f, 0xb5, 0xe3, 0x63, 0xb4, 0x21},
 		CodeHash:    [32]byte{0xc5, 0xd2, 0x46, 0x01, 0x86, 0xf7, 0x23, 0x3c, 0x92, 0x7e, 0x7d, 0xb2, 0xdc, 0xc7, 0x03, 0xc0, 0xe5, 0x00, 0xb6, 0x53, 0xca, 0x82, 0x27, 0x3b, 0x7b, 0xfa, 0xd8, 0x04, 0x5d, 0x85, 0xa4, 0x70},
 	}
 
@@ -177,13 +170,14 @@ func EncodeAccount(proof *EIP1186AccountProofResponse) ([]byte, error) {
 	account := Account{
 		Nonce:       proof.Nonce,
 		Balance:     proof.Balance,
-		StorageRoot: proof.StorageHash,
+		StorageHash: proof.StorageHash,
 		CodeHash:    proof.CodeHash,
 	}
 
 	return rlp.EncodeToBytes(account)
 }
 
+// Make a generic function for it
 func min(a, b int) int {
 	if a < b {
 		return a