diff --git a/core/state/journal.go b/core/state/journal.go
index 3cc54b93eb..939e66afa7 100644
--- a/core/state/journal.go
+++ b/core/state/journal.go
@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ type (
 		account *common.Address
 	}
 
+	// createContractChange represents an account becoming a contract-account.
+	// This event happens prior to executing initcode. The journal-event simply
+	// manages the created-flag, in order to allow same-tx destruction.
 	createContractChange struct {
 		account common.Address
 	}
@@ -169,7 +172,7 @@ func (ch createObjectChange) revert(s *StateDB) {
 }
 
 func (ch createObjectChange) dirtied() *common.Address {
-	return ch.account
+	return nil
 }
 
 func (ch createObjectChange) copy() journalEntry {
diff --git a/core/state/state_object.go b/core/state/state_object.go
index 2aeb83206c..f892ddf592 100644
--- a/core/state/state_object.go
+++ b/core/state/state_object.go
@@ -77,10 +77,7 @@ func (s *stateObject) empty() bool {
 
 // newObject creates a state object.
 func newObject(db *StateDB, address common.Address, acct *types.StateAccount) *stateObject {
-	var (
-		origin  = acct
-		created = acct == nil // true if the account was not existent
-	)
+	origin := acct
 	if acct == nil {
 		acct = types.NewEmptyStateAccount()
 	}
@@ -93,7 +90,6 @@ func newObject(db *StateDB, address common.Address, acct *types.StateAccount) *s
 		originStorage:  make(Storage),
 		pendingStorage: make(Storage),
 		dirtyStorage:   make(Storage),
-		created:        created,
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/core/vm/evm.go b/core/vm/evm.go
index e6e9cc64c3..c33ad8094e 100644
--- a/core/vm/evm.go
+++ b/core/vm/evm.go
@@ -462,10 +462,10 @@ func (evm *EVM) create(caller ContractRef, codeAndHash *codeAndHash, gas uint64,
 	if !evm.StateDB.Exist(address) {
 		evm.StateDB.CreateAccount(address)
 	}
-	// CreateContract means that regardless of whether the acccount existed
-	// in the state trie or not, previously, it _now_ becomes created as a
-	// _contract_ account. This is performed _prior_ to executing the initcode,
-	// since the initcode acts inside that account.
+	// CreateContract means that regardless of whether the account previously existed
+	// in the state trie or not, it _now_ becomes created as a _contract_ account.
+	// This is performed _prior_ to executing the initcode,  since the initcode
+	// acts inside that account.
 	evm.StateDB.CreateContract(address)
 
 	if evm.chainRules.IsEIP158 {
diff --git a/tests/block_test.go b/tests/block_test.go
index be4b6ee37d..1ba84f5f24 100644
--- a/tests/block_test.go
+++ b/tests/block_test.go
@@ -49,11 +49,6 @@ func TestBlockchain(t *testing.T) {
 	// using 4.6 TGas
 	bt.skipLoad(`.*randomStatetest94.json.*`)
 
-	// The tests under Pyspecs are the ones that are published as execution-spect tests.
-	// We run these tests separately, no need to _also_ run them as part of the
-	// reference tests.
-	bt.skipLoad(`^Pyspecs/`)
-
 	bt.walk(t, blockTestDir, func(t *testing.T, name string, test *BlockTest) {
 		execBlockTest(t, bt, test)
 	})
@@ -69,14 +64,6 @@ func TestExecutionSpecBlocktests(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	bt := new(testMatcher)
 
-	// These tests fail as of https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/28666, since we
-	// no longer delete "leftover storage" when deploying a contract.
-	bt.skipLoad(`^cancun/eip6780_selfdestruct/selfdestruct/self_destructing_initcode_create_tx.json`)
-	bt.skipLoad(`^cancun/eip6780_selfdestruct/selfdestruct/self_destructing_initcode.json`)
-	bt.skipLoad(`^cancun/eip6780_selfdestruct/selfdestruct/recreate_self_destructed_contract_different_txs.json`)
-	bt.skipLoad(`^cancun/eip6780_selfdestruct/selfdestruct/delegatecall_from_new_contract_to_pre_existing_contract.json`)
-	bt.skipLoad(`^cancun/eip6780_selfdestruct/selfdestruct/create_selfdestruct_same_tx.json`)
-
 	bt.walk(t, executionSpecBlockchainTestDir, func(t *testing.T, name string, test *BlockTest) {
 		execBlockTest(t, bt, test)
 	})