ut modifying any existing nodes, as depicted in Figure 2 below.</p>
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            <img src="../imgs/mmr.png" alt="Appending new elements to an MMR">
            <div class="image-caption">Figure 2: Appending new elements to an MMR</div>
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        <p>The root nodes of each mountain are called the <i>peaks</i> of the MMR. The <i>root hash</i> of the MMR is computed by hashing the total number of nodes in the MMR together with the set of all peak hashes, a proce