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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

AU

Dec 24, 2020

A comprehensive and clear course that summarizes the basic concepts to understand blockchain technology. Also, the resources and contents included are very valuables. I totally recommend this course.

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By SHAH S R J

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May 10, 2020

very good course but it can be more illustrative

By Moksh K

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Feb 17, 2019

for understanding blockchain basics this is best

By Rajesh N

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Aug 28, 2018

Thanks to Bina mam..good explanation with URL's.

By Abhishek K S

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Feb 18, 2021

Great course to start off learning blockchain!!

By Hemanta D

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Jun 30, 2020

Thank you very much for such valuable course ..

By Tomas B

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Jun 24, 2020

Excellent overview of the Blockchain technology

By Vijay I

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Jun 9, 2020

It will help you to get started with blockchain

By JAYANT B

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Jun 5, 2020

got lot to know nice knowledge about blockchain

By Prakul J

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May 30, 2020

Great Course! Very well guided and interesting.

By Sharmila P

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May 6, 2020

Really Great platform to learn new technologies

By Arun K

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Nov 18, 2019

Excellent Course to get started with Blockchain

By Brandon N

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Aug 24, 2019

Really great course and very interesting stuff!

By Haïdar A M D

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Jul 7, 2019

The contents reflected the title of the course.

By Nguyen H N

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Nov 19, 2018

Very good basic knowledge about the blockchain.

By Nabeel T

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Jan 6, 2022

Basic yet thorough introduction to Blockchain.

By Nguyễn Đ N

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Aug 12, 2021

The best course for Blockchain basic knowledge

By Ganesh G

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Aug 29, 2020

Very well explained course and well organised.

By Bikrant M

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Jul 13, 2020

I really understand the concept of Blockchain.

By Shubham D

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May 2, 2020

Very good and useful for beginners. Thank you.

By siddhant d

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Nov 18, 2018

The course was precise and upto the standards.

By Eduardo E B

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Jun 5, 2018

Great course! Super helpful and easy to follow

By Nikolay M

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Aug 29, 2022

it was really difficult but very interesting!

By Samruddhi T

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Jan 27, 2022

Good course for basic learning of blockchain.

By Diego C

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Jul 16, 2021

Me encantó, aprendí bastante sobre blockchain

By Deleted A

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Jul 13, 2021

Excellent Basic Introduction to Blockchain..