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Alessandro Parisi
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Alessandro Parisi

Alessandro Parisi has been an IT professional for over 20 years, acquiring significant experience as a Security Data Scientist, and as an Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity and Blockchain specialist. He has experience of operating within organizational and decisional contexts characterized by high complexity. Over the years, he has helped companies to adopt Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain DLT technologies as strategic tools in protecting sensitive corporate assets. He holds a Master Degree in Economics and Statistics.
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Advantages and disadvantages of blockchain

As a decentralized model, blockchain and other technologies that are inspired by it offer all the advantages seen in the preceding paragraphs, in addition to a series of specific advantages, which we will summarize here, together with the disadvantages.

Advantages of blockchain

Transaction immutability: Leveraging the hashing and encryption features we analyzed in Chapter 2, Cryptography Essentials, blockchain guarantees the immutability and non-repudiation of transactions. In other words, the blockchain ledger does not allow the deletion of existing transactions, and any changes made to them will result in new transactions that are added to existing ones, thus maintaining the continuity...

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Alessandro Parisi has been an IT professional for over 20 years, acquiring significant experience as a Security Data Scientist, and as an Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity and Blockchain specialist. He has experience of operating within organizational and decisional contexts characterized by high complexity. Over the years, he has helped companies to adopt Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain DLT technologies as strategic tools in protecting sensitive corporate assets. He holds a Master Degree in Economics and Statistics.
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