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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 BOGGAVARAPU V S S H

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Jun 14, 2020

very good for beginners.

By Sneha J H D

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May 31, 2020

nice course for beginers

By Jason M

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Jan 20, 2020

Good intro to Blockchain

By Ahmadou M

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Mar 7, 2019

Great beginning course..

By Diễn N

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Jan 11, 2019

that's very interesting!

By Himanshu S

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Dec 16, 2018

Its an excellent course.

By Olasupo O

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Aug 9, 2018

Very simplified teaching

By Paul B

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Jan 3, 2022

Such a great course!!!!

By Ron C

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Oct 12, 2021

Thank you! Great Course

By Naison P

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Apr 23, 2021

Awesome and eye opening

By sanjivy r

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Feb 21, 2021

Very well structured!!!

By Kishan K S

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Jan 10, 2021

What an amazing course.

By Vatsala B

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Aug 24, 2020

very Informative Course

By Stephanny S

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Jul 16, 2020

Un curso super completo

By M S B Z

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May 19, 2020

very very worthy course

By Deepak P G

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May 5, 2020

it is very good course.

By david z a

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Oct 15, 2019

excelente curso gracias

By Pablo Z R

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Aug 30, 2019

Very interesting course

By Prathamesh S

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Jul 3, 2019

Its Excellent course...

By Arun K S

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May 17, 2019

very good for beginners

By Manideep R

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Sep 23, 2018

Lot of useful info.....

By Anagha P B

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Nov 4, 2024

very beginner friendly

By Ruchika P

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Jan 12, 2023

VERY CLEAR EXPLANATION

By Jose I O

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Dec 12, 2021

Excelente introducción

By anusha r r

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Jul 13, 2021

Perfect place to learn