.. _sphx_glr_api_gallery_structures_chain:

Chains and payments
-------------------

Linked blocks, cumulative-work fork choice, reorganizations, and a payment
from signature to confirmation.


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Prerequisites: the quick start, gossip, and the fork experiment. By the end you should distinguish a signed, pending, included, and displaced payment. A pending queue (often called a mempool) is local to each peer.">

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  :doc:`/api/gallery/structures/chain/plot_02_payment_lifecycle`

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