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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 AVILA J

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Apr 23, 2021

Thanks Coursera and Buffalo University....

By Itzcoatl R P V

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Oct 5, 2020

Clear and concise insights into blockchain

By sunil j

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Sep 11, 2020

amazing instructor and well planned course

By Lakshit M

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Jul 18, 2020

Best course for building blockchain basics

By Vinod R

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Jun 12, 2020

an interactive way of teaching Thanks bina

By Saurav S 1

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Jun 5, 2020

What a helpful course hats off to coursera

By Md. M

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Nov 13, 2019

Great One. Learned a lot from this series.

By Michael M

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Oct 13, 2019

Excellent survey course for further study.

By nguyen m H

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Jun 6, 2019

Supporting Vietnamese make me to go faster

By Zohaib A

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Mar 8, 2019

Awesome experience with Mam Still learning

By Arun.Kumar.Gupta

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Jan 16, 2019

Very good course and structured very well.

By Arpit S

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Nov 3, 2018

Very nice course. Thank you. Learnt a lot!

By Alon G

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Sep 17, 2018

Excellent course for the very beginners ..

By Томилова Н И

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Jul 29, 2023

Thank you, I learned a lot of new things.

By Anukul C

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Jan 26, 2022

very well explained + beginner's friendly

By MUHAMMED M

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Sep 26, 2020

Great course for beginners in Block chain

By Rana V S

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May 30, 2020

IT was great learning blockchain with you

By John D

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Feb 3, 2020

An in-depth look at how blockchain works.

By SHUBHAM K V

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Oct 29, 2019

Best introductory course on blockchain...

By Mahip T

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Jun 25, 2019

The course is great!!I really enjoyed it.

By Vishwanatham N

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Mar 11, 2019

very well structured course for beginners

By Jeanna S

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Nov 5, 2018

Great intro to the concepts of blockchain

By Ipyana M

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Mar 15, 2023

its a great course i enjoyed learning it

By KAPADIYA N J

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Apr 9, 2021

very nice learning experience.

Thank you.

By Maneesh K J

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Jan 17, 2021

enjoyed this course. thank you coursera.