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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 Anand R

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Apr 29, 2022

learn a lot from this course

By Ferney V

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Feb 25, 2022

Very nice and well explained

By Richard H

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Jan 1, 2022

It was a great introduction!

By Vikas r

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Aug 28, 2019

It was an excellent Course!!

By Lo V

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Apr 25, 2019

The course really helped me.

By David M S

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Oct 18, 2018

Perfect course for beginners

By Paul

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Jun 28, 2018

`Great succinct introduction

By Ahmed A

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Jun 25, 2018

great course ,update content

By Đức T K

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Jan 28, 2022

Super useful for a beginner

By Rajika C

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Jan 19, 2022

Best for Blockchain Basics!

By Esther Y

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Jun 27, 2021

Thanks for the great course

By Omar O

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Sep 12, 2020

Now i know why its awarded.

By Nareshkumar S

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Aug 21, 2020

Superb introductory course.

By SAURABH K M

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Jul 23, 2020

excellent course for basics

By Harsh k

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Jul 17, 2020

Great Course to begin with.

By Mohak G

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Jun 27, 2020

Start from the very basics!

By Madhushree D

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May 7, 2020

Great course for beginners!

By Achint S

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Jul 1, 2019

A good course on Blockchain

By Kiran K

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Jun 25, 2019

The course is very helpful.

By Ankit k v

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Jul 25, 2023

excellent course and tutor

By Mudassir I

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May 15, 2022

Good course for begineers.

By vikas g

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Dec 2, 2021

Excellent content delivery

By punit k a

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Aug 29, 2021

it was an great experience

By 270_SWATI T

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Jan 5, 2021

Amazing course instructor!

By Soumyajit M

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Sep 17, 2020

Great Course for beginners