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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 Piyush S

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Sep 19, 2020

Cheers to Coursera!!!!

By SHUBHAM N

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Jul 8, 2020

Good course for Basics

By pardeep

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Jun 22, 2020

The course is amazing.

By Fasiha Z

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Jun 1, 2020

outstanding experience

By Nidhi N

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May 7, 2020

VERY GOOD EXPLAINATION

By Muhammad Z H

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Mar 1, 2020

Excellent Learned alot

By Aravind K D

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Nov 16, 2018

Good Course Structure.

By Carlos R L A

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Oct 31, 2018

Excelente, me encantó.

By Piyush R

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Nov 10, 2022

Great Experience ever

By SAMIR O

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May 8, 2022

The best explanation!

By Roberto M

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Jan 21, 2022

Very good and extense

By SMAIL M

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Jul 5, 2021

really it was amazing

By Muhammad H A

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Aug 5, 2020

Very good explanation

By Shourya P

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Dec 7, 2018

Very Good information

By BATIS

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Oct 18, 2018

An Excellent Course !

By Kapil N

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Jun 7, 2018

excellent explanation

By Pavel M

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Jan 15, 2022

fast and interesting

By Dat T

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Jan 13, 2022

highly recommend for

By Daniel A B T

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Nov 5, 2021

Claridad en el tema.

By krishnan

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Aug 10, 2020

Good and Interactive

By Aditya K

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Jul 24, 2020

Teacher was awesome.

By Travel w S

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Jun 29, 2020

The course was great

By Reema A

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May 4, 2020

really usefull learn

By Nitish M

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Dec 19, 2019

Very awsum for start

By YC

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Jan 25, 2019

very well structured