 compaction. As soon as we no longer require proving the inclusion of any element older than a certain point in time, we can drop nearly all of those elements (and most of their ancestor nodes) from the MMR without losing the ability to generate new roots.</p>
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            <img src="../imgs/mmr-certificate.png" alt="Wrapping the MMR root with a consensus certificate">
            <div class="image-caption">Figure 3: Wrapping the MMR root with a consensus certificate</div