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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

U

Dec 31, 2019

One of the Best course for Absolutely Beginners :-) Discussed Core Fundamental Factors of Blockchain of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Amazing Resources & Really Helpful Content. Thanks Bina Ramamurthy Ma'am.

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By Muhammad M

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Jan 16, 2022

Pace was good enough to learn easily ! Premium assignments

By Rao Z A

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Mar 23, 2021

It was a Great Opportunity to learn! I have learned a lot.

By Salar S

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Apr 9, 2020

For me, that was a comprehensive and extraordinary course.

By Deepak K

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Sep 2, 2019

perfectly explained and reading content was extremely good

By Guido A C

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Jul 21, 2019

Good general introduction to key definitions and questions

By Anurag V

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Oct 17, 2022

Well structures. Terms are sometimes hard to understand.

By Prashant K

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Aug 12, 2020

very nicely explained, especially for a beginner like me.

By Allam B R

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Jun 18, 2020

engaging content and nice exercises for hands-on practice

By Mr. V D

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May 8, 2020

This course taught me the very good basics of Blockchain.

By Pramod D

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Jul 1, 2019

Well Explained course in pace for beginners to catch upon

By Sachit S

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Mar 17, 2022

help me to understand the proper basics about blockchain

By Aman T

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Sep 2, 2020

It was an awesome course . There are lot of take aways .

By Ragavendran S

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Sep 1, 2020

Awesome More Defi Related Certifications will be helpful

By Dr. V

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May 18, 2020

course is very nice to understand block chain technology

By umapujeri

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May 14, 2020

Too Good

Enjoyed the course

Good Learning Experience

Thanks

By Rajani C

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Sep 10, 2019

Project is very interesting and it keep you at the edge.

By Bhaskar N

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Jun 13, 2019

It was Awesome learning experience. Its a great method o

By Masooth A

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Apr 10, 2019

nice but little bit theory module.examples are very less

By A. A T I

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Oct 27, 2018

An awesome experience to learn with Dr. Bina Ramamurthy.

By Paolo M

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Jul 18, 2018

Great introduction to blockchain fundamental technology!

By Akshal G

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Jul 17, 2018

A must recommended course for any blockchain enthusiast.

By Prem

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Sep 21, 2022

It is the best course if you want to learn Blockchain.

By Shrisha h s

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Apr 28, 2021

Course provides good basics of blockchain for beginners

By praveena t s

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Jun 26, 2020

SUPERB TEACHING BY MS BINA RAMAMURTHY, THANK YOU MADAM!

By Yogesh N

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Mar 10, 2019

Too good to start the blockchain concepts understanding