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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 Apithep P

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Mar 27, 2021

There are some part that explain roughly and unclearly enough.

By UTKARSH T

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Aug 20, 2019

its quiet an interactive course especially the last assignment

By HARDIK K

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May 8, 2020

A good course to get started with fundamentals of blockchain.

By IPSIT S M

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May 15, 2022

Very good course for understanding the basics in blockchain.

By Ramin S

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Dec 28, 2021

the course was a greart statring point in blockchain for me

By Matthew C

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Sep 3, 2021

A little harder than I thought it would be but still great!

By Amit R

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Oct 9, 2020

knowledge on cryptography and basics of blockchain was good

By Sujoy D P

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Jul 12, 2020

It was a great course.But assignment part was a bit tricky.

By Muhammad S

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Feb 15, 2023

Thanks to Coursera and HEC for giving me this opportunity.

By Antonio M C

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Oct 11, 2022

Very insteresting overview of blockchain and crypto world

By Swaroop R

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Sep 2, 2022

Explanation could have been in detailed and practical way

By Anas A

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Aug 22, 2021

Glad to study my very first course in blockchain this way.

By anisa p

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Jun 9, 2020

Course is good but the last assignment is very troublesome

By Parag G

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May 18, 2019

It was a good course especially the assignment at the last

By Pedro R

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Aug 5, 2018

Best way to get a grip on blockchain technology right now

By Patrick L C

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Apr 24, 2021

Interesting introduction to blockchain. Congratulations.

By Thales G

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Apr 18, 2021

Good course, but various optional links are unavailable.

By Phyo T Y

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Jul 7, 2020

I have got many knowledge from this course. Thanks a lot

By UTKARSH S

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Jun 25, 2021

Need to be more relevant for the real world application

By malladi p

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Aug 31, 2020

Probably the best Blockchain basics course on Coursera!

By Fabricio J

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Apr 9, 2020

This course offers a good basis in blockchain knowledge

By Stepan L

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Jul 18, 2018

I'd love to have more detailed explanations inn videos.

By Sushanta B

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Mar 10, 2023

A nice practical approach to the basics of Blockchain.

By Prasad J P

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Jun 9, 2021

Nice Course with detailed introduction to Blockchain

By Miguel M

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Aug 27, 2018

Good course to gain a first insight into Blockchain.