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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 Vijay S

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Sep 9, 2018

Very Informative!!

By Arun A

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Aug 8, 2018

Decent 101 for BC.

By Andrea B

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Aug 1, 2018

Excellent MOC !!!!

By Gouri S S

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Jul 28, 2018

Excellent Content.

By Jyotirmai B

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Jul 10, 2018

outstanding course

By Marc A

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Jun 14, 2018

Excellent content.

By Liuxing X

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Oct 11, 2023

very good classes

By AKASH O

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May 13, 2023

very nice lecture

By Oussama L

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Feb 7, 2023

its a good course

By Mihiraj W

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Nov 18, 2022

Very Smart Course

By Niloy M

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Jan 29, 2022

Practicaland nice

By Keith H

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Nov 17, 2021

That was awesome!

By Osama S

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Apr 15, 2021

The lecturer ever

By Alejandro M J

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Jun 24, 2020

Good and Complete

By apeksha s

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Jun 12, 2020

Thank you so much

By Karan A

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May 17, 2020

Excellent course.

By Logesh M

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Apr 15, 2020

GOOD BASIC COURSE

By Madan s

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Mar 24, 2020

just one word fab

By Priyasharan G

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Jan 23, 2020

Fantastic teacher

By Devsen D M

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Jan 21, 2020

Loved this course

By Nguyen K

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Apr 27, 2019

Thank you so much

By Alexander S

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Sep 10, 2018

very basic but ok

By Eric H

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Jun 1, 2018

Fantastic Course!

By pradyumn s

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Feb 12, 2025

very informative

By Kader n

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Jul 15, 2023

very informative