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Alessandro Parisi
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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Transaction management

The task of the distributed ledger is to record the transactions that have been validly concluded within the clockchain in an unmodifiable way. Before being entered into the blockchain, transactions must therefore be validated.

Pending their validation, the transactions are saved within the transaction mempool, which represents a set of unconfirmed transactions. Each node has the task of managing its own mempool transaction, waiting for the transactions to be validated.

You can query the list of unconfirmed transactions currently present in the blockchain by visiting the following link: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/unconfirmed-transactions. Anyone with access to the blockchain is able to view transactions.

Now, let's see in more detail what a transaction is.

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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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