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About the Course

This first course of the Blockchain specialization provides a broad overview of the essential concepts of blockchain technology – by initially exploring the Bitcoin protocol followed by the Ethereum protocol – to lay the foundation necessary for developing applications and programming. You will be equipped with the knowledge needed to create nodes on your personal Ethereum blockchain, create accounts, unlock accounts, mine, transact, transfer Ethers, and check balances. You will learn about the decentralized peer-to-peer network, an immutable distributed ledger and the trust model that defines a blockchain. This course enables you to explain basic components of a blockchain (transaction, block, block header, and the chain) its operations (verification, validation, and consensus model) underlying algorithms, and essentials of trust (hard fork and soft fork). Content includes the hashing and cryptography foundations indispensable to blockchain programming, which is the focus of two subsequent specialization courses, Smart Contracts and Decentralized Applications (Dapps). You will work on a virtual machine image, specifically created for this course, to build an Ethereum test chain and operate on the chain. This hands-on activity will help you understand the workings of a blockchain, its transactions, blocks and mining. Main concepts are delivered through videos, demos and hands-on exercises....

Top reviews

TT

Nov 18, 2018

This is an introductory course to Blockchain. The supplemented material (in other words self-study) is excellent and in my opinion is the only way to master the concepts and details of this discipline

LR

Jul 29, 2019

Comprehensive and clear course that summarize the basic concepts to understand the blockchain technology. Also the resources and contents included are very valuables. I totally recommend this course.

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By parth

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Jul 14, 2020

good course for beginners..

By Thierry G

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Apr 9, 2020

More emphasis on the basics

By Joseph M

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Oct 7, 2018

Good overview of blockchain

By Anand P

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Sep 3, 2018

Good Course understood well

By Sidharth P

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Aug 2, 2018

Good for knowing the basics

By Deleted A

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Aug 22, 2020

Great Course and resources

By Vikram G

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May 13, 2020

IT WAS A NICE EXPERIENCE!!

By Syed A J

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Oct 12, 2018

Well explained everything.

By SAKSHAM G

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Feb 5, 2022

good course for beginners

By Deleted A

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Apr 15, 2020

the course is excellent!!

By Jamal F

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Nov 14, 2022

Really good introduction

By SAMPAT K G

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Apr 25, 2020

Great for a beginners!!

By Electrical S

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Feb 16, 2022

Project was very easy!

By Anitha B

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Jul 25, 2018

Good knowledge sharing

By Lijo R

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Dec 20, 2022

Great starter course

By Deleted A

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Mar 10, 2019

Basics are very good

By Ayushi M

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Feb 21, 2019

Very Well explained!

By Sarath K

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Jun 25, 2018

good and interesting

By Rafael A J L

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Feb 18, 2021

A little too basic.

By G S V R

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May 21, 2020

Great teaching.....

By Aarti v

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Apr 17, 2020

great course!!!!!!!

By pochadri a

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Nov 5, 2018

very well presented

By DHINESHKUMAR M

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Jun 24, 2021

WONDERFUL TEACHING

By Lizgeorge

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Jul 12, 2020

Very Useful Course

By Raphael N

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Jun 15, 2023

Good introduction