Previously the MerkleNode.collect method was returning a dict whose keys
are node types and values dict of {<node_hash>: <node_data>}.

In order to give more flexibility to client code for the processing of
collected nodes, prefer to simply return a set of MerkleNode.

As a consequence, MerkleNode objects need to be hashable by Python so
the __hash__ method has also been implemented.

Closes T4633