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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

SJ

Feb 5, 2022

Really l​earned 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.

TT

Nov 19, 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

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By ABHA B

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Sep 12, 2020

Ma'am was very clear and sweet

By Pratik U

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Aug 5, 2020

Fantastic course for beginners

By Kanak B

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Jul 16, 2020

Excellent to the point course!

By Sandeep N

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Jun 1, 2020

It was indeed a great course..

By Cva T

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May 12, 2020

Very practical and informative

By sourav s

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May 10, 2020

A perfect course to start with

By Jose V P M

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Apr 24, 2019

Good introduction for beginner

By Shubham J

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Oct 29, 2018

good intro, great link to read

By Ahmed M A E

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Oct 29, 2018

Very informative and effective

By Vasu V

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Jun 18, 2022

Detailed and well elaborated

By yazd m

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Jun 19, 2021

Thank you all for everything.

By Adithya V

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May 6, 2021

Really helpful for beginners!

By Bhanu P

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Apr 19, 2021

very nice content for beginer

By Alfian D A R A

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Feb 18, 2021

GOOD COURSES !!! THANK YOUU!!

By D B

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Feb 15, 2021

Good for Blockchain beginners

By Kostikov P

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Nov 2, 2020

Отличный курс для начинающих!

By Yasharth Y

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Oct 16, 2020

It was really great to learn!

By PODUGU S C

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Sep 18, 2020

Greate Learning Tool Coursera

By Mrs.M.Amal M C T

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Sep 10, 2020

GOOD COURSE, GOOD LECTURER...

By Tamal M

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Aug 10, 2020

Great Resource for a beginner

By Peter J

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Oct 16, 2019

Good overview of btc and eth.

By Muhammad M

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Jun 7, 2019

very good learning experience

By Yenni R

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May 18, 2019

Best Course ever I have done.

By Tanisha

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Mar 20, 2019

Awesome assignment and course

By Marcelo B

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Nov 26, 2022

Muito satisfeito com o curso