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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

SJ

Feb 4, 2022

Really learned a lot about the fundamentals of blockchain, being a software engineer looking into blockchain. It just got me up to speed with the underlying workflow of blockchain and more. loved it.

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By Ruchir

May 22, 2020

A good start to blockchain. Lectures should have been more descriptive and interactive. Resources are useful and assignments are very interesting.

By Akash K

Oct 2, 2020

This is just basic of the blockchain technology. The assignment and extra readings given in this really helped me a lot to understand the basics.

By KOLIPARTHI L

Jul 13, 2020

The course tells you the very basics of blockchain like how to use the blockchain, basic terms in the blockchain, how the blockchain works etc.,

By Maxime B R

May 10, 2020

Great class but I think the final project should be on a network, because it not user friendly to download a virtual machine and run all of this

By Soham B

Jul 4, 2020

A perfect introduction to the Blockchain topic. The optional reading material consists of even more in-depth materials and is a must-read.

By Olivier d C

Nov 12, 2018

Excellent course ! The only slight negative point I found is the English subtitling which, sometime, is not correct and creates confusions

By Germán T R

Aug 25, 2022

The curs is a very good option for starters, but the content is not updated and there are some links pointing tot 404 not found websites.

By Venugopala P S

May 12, 2020

Good beginning to block chain. Good exercise was also given. Some more illustrations may e given for the concepts during the explanation.

By Gustavo M S

Sep 23, 2018

Very good way to start learning the world of Blockchains, with clear explanations on the basics of cryptocurrency (Bitcoin and Ethereum).

By Aditya V G

Mar 30, 2020

There was more to learn with the reading supplemental than the actual video lecture but nonetheless the course was great to begin with.

By Ann C

Jan 31, 2020

Good basic course but falls down in instructions for completing final project...(though info. is available through discussion forums)..

By BHUVANESH J S

May 17, 2020

The final project assignment took more time because of server problem and it does not generated account balance for too many times....

By Alexander P Z M

Aug 3, 2019

I was a little acquainted with the subject, the explanation were a little too summarized even for high level course. Anyway very good.

By Илья К

Jul 27, 2022

Хорошее введение в основы блокченйа, спасибо. Финальное задание было простым, самое сложное было подружить виртуальный бокс с маком)

By Nilotpal C

Jun 23, 2021

The fundamental theory of blockchain and bitcoins were discussed which helped in gaining insights into the vast world of blockchain

By Boulmé

Sep 22, 2018

Interesting enough to get curiosity to go for Course 2.

A stepwise approach to get the concepts behind the generic name "blockchain"

By T P

Oct 3, 2018

Great. Informative. The lab was really good, although I'd prefer a more advanced CLI environment for learning the network concepts.

By Ansh C

Sep 28, 2021

teaching and everything was perfect but the final project might not be feasible for everyone as downloading 2GB files is not easy

By Aryamon M

Apr 25, 2020

The final program part was not that well optimized. But apart from only that part everything else was pretty interesting to learn

By Arpit K

Mar 8, 2020

The resource material was really good. At times the videos were hard to understand for a beginner but it was still a great course

By Kaushik M

Oct 16, 2018

A good intro into the field of blockchain. The quizzes could ve been more challenging than just copy pasting some info from link,

By Inderjeet S

May 25, 2020

This course provides wide coverage to both Bitcoin and Ethereum and explains the structure and operations in a systematic manner

By Sunny

May 27, 2020

Great course, enjoyed a lot. Learnt more about it from the optional reading but was able to grasp the basics form the lectures.

By Agrawal

Apr 20, 2020

This course is perfect for beginners. I have explored many courses before taking this course and i am quite satisfied with it.

By Rauda M M A A A B

May 4, 2020

interesting course but i wish that the course was more interactive and practical instead of just listening to the instructor.