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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 Jahadis S

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Oct 19, 2022

Useful course

By Souvik M

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Aug 20, 2022

Amazing Course

By M I D

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Mar 15, 2022

Easy to follow

By Yoga P

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Aug 25, 2021

soo inspiring!

By Apurav D

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Jun 20, 2021

it was awesome

By Vasant j

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May 18, 2020

really amazing

By Kunal B

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May 8, 2020

Amazing course

By Sriman .

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Apr 29, 2020

new technology

By ANTHONY R

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Mar 7, 2019

Great overview

By Saikrishna M

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Dec 16, 2018

awesome course

By Ahmed T

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Oct 2, 2018

Great Course!!

By Nitish P

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Sep 29, 2018

Good contents.

By Leo

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Sep 24, 2018

Great starting

By Ezequiel A G

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Jul 27, 2018

Amazin course!

By Jacqueline C

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Dec 31, 2022

Great Course!

By حسين ع ا

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Aug 8, 2022

مفيدة جداً...

By Muhammad A S

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Feb 8, 2022

Good to start

By Julian E O F

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Jan 17, 2022

great course

By Bandameedi S

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Aug 9, 2020

thank you mam

By ALLAM B

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Jun 18, 2020

easy to learn

By Pavithra

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May 16, 2020

love to learn

By Dheeraj.L

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Apr 6, 2020

EASY TO LEARN

By Askar A

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Jan 26, 2020

Great course!

By Aeshah a

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Nov 18, 2019

Thanx for all

By Vladimir L

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Sep 26, 2019

Good & clear.