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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 Dhruv D

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Oct 26, 2019

great peice of information

By Rahul S

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Aug 29, 2019

I was a great experience.

By Rahul R P

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Aug 3, 2019

Excellent explanation ever

By Bharathi G

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Jun 29, 2019

Simple way of Introduction

By Dong A

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Dec 28, 2018

really helpful to beginner

By Emmanuel D

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Jun 25, 2018

Clear and concise material

By Rajiv P

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Dec 10, 2022

Well explained, Thank You

By Anurag Y

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Jul 21, 2022

great learning experience

By Lasha K

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May 2, 2022

Nice guide for beginners!

By Anshu P

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Mar 28, 2022

Really Informative Course

By Deepak “ V

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Aug 6, 2021

Good intro for Beginners.

By Mehmet A

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Jan 25, 2021

Thanks to Bina Ramamurthy

By Andrey A (

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Jan 13, 2021

Great course, theanks!!!!

By Akash V

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Aug 5, 2020

Great learning experience

By Solaiyapparaja B

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May 24, 2020

Good Course for Beginners

By Mahabub A

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May 20, 2020

It is an excellent course

By Mehta T H

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May 11, 2020

Loved to take this course

By abdelghafar

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Jan 24, 2020

thank you for your effort

By Bill L

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Jul 27, 2019

GREAT INTRODUCTORY COURSE

By mohammad r m

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Aug 2, 2023

prefect course to start.

By ANIRUDDHA B

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May 14, 2023

fucking excellent course

By Ehis F

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May 8, 2022

It was very informative

By DIANA J J

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Jan 6, 2022

The course was excellent

By Juan A

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Jun 25, 2021

great introductory curse

By Benjamin S

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Jul 10, 2020

Thank you, it was great!