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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 PAOLA C M

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Jul 15, 2020

Ambitionary

By Sarabjot S

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May 24, 2020

Great...!!!

By Edgar S

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Apr 16, 2020

Great Start

By Hemant K

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Apr 6, 2020

best course

By Padmashree N S

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Apr 2, 2020

Nice course

By Gapur K

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Jan 1, 2020

Good course

By Jean W

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Oct 22, 2019

interesting

By Md A

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Sep 2, 2019

Great work.

By Abdelrahman S A A

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Sep 23, 2018

NICE COURSE

By HEBA A

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Oct 2, 2022

Thank you

By ABDULAZIZ S M A H A S M A H

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Aug 15, 2022

رائعة جداً

By Majd A

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Jul 17, 2022

versy good

By Юрій Ш

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Jun 14, 2022

seems good

By Alassane K

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Nov 9, 2021

super cool

By Mahendran K

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Sep 17, 2021

best one!!

By Marco P

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Dec 20, 2020

fantastic!

By Preeta S

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Dec 8, 2020

Excellent!

By Iqbal U K

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Nov 22, 2020

Very Good!

By Gabriel M

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Jul 1, 2020

Excellent!

By Nguyễn H Q

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Jan 1, 2020

statisfied

By Miguel M

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Sep 13, 2019

Muy bueno!

By Ricardo A G T

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Dec 26, 2018

Excellent!

By Vivek M M

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Sep 21, 2018

Super good

By Utsab B

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Jul 1, 2024

Amazing!!

By Rabia K

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Aug 25, 2023

excellent