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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

TT

Nov 18, 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

SS

Jul 27, 2018

I find this course helpful to absolute beginner and for one who wants to grasp the basic concepts of Blockchain . The tutor tried to explain most part with simplicity and good and sufficient details.

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By Sarfaraz B

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Oct 25, 2018

Very good course for a starter. Step wise approach that given enough details to get started.

By Abhishek K T

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Aug 10, 2018

Interesting evaluative components. Enjoyed the experiment using virtual machines in the end.

By Khaerul A J

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Sep 18, 2020

It's a great course, I understood the substantial and fundamental knowledge of blockchains.

By Chitra

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Jun 6, 2020

Good course for beginners to start with to start analyzing the amazing world of Blockchain.

By Rajesh P

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May 5, 2020

Simply loved the content and way of teaching. This course has been very insightful for me.

By Constant V

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Jan 17, 2020

One of the better courses to get introduced in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Well done.

By Ketan K

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Mar 31, 2019

Good to learn Blockchain basics, this will definitely help improve my skills on BlockChain

By Tshepiso D

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Jun 17, 2022

Very good course if you want to understand the basics of Blockchain, highly recommend it.

By Samyak J

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Oct 19, 2019

best course for the beginners.Very nice additional resources and deep covering of topics.

By Ramya S K

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Jun 25, 2019

clearly explained the fundamental concepts and the optional readings are really helpful.

By Alexandra C

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Jan 13, 2019

Great introductory course for someone new to blockchain technology. Highly recommend it!

By Shubham Y

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Feb 22, 2022

Nice course for complete beginners. I would recommend not to skip the reading materials.

By SIDDHARTHA M

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Sep 6, 2021

The optional resources shared in this course are very easy to understand and helps a lot

By Sandy V

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Aug 1, 2020

Excellent Course. Very easy to undersatnd the concepts. Thank you Professor Ramamurthy!!

By Muhammad B K

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Jul 1, 2020

One of the best course on internet. Very well documented and teaching method is awesome.

By Frimpong A J O

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Nov 13, 2021

After completing this course, I now feel better about the misconception of blockchain.

By SAHIL M

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Aug 10, 2021

Great course for beginners. So much to learn and smooth evaluation process. Thank you.

By VISHAL S

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Nov 15, 2020

Great courses!!! must try to get basics of blockchain , crytocurrency and ethereum. :-)

By Vijayakumar P

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Jun 26, 2020

Really, I had a great experience.I learned lot from the Tutor Bina Mam.I thanks to her.

By Matthew G

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Jun 13, 2020

Easy to understand. Great intro. Will explore blockchain technology further. Thank you.

By Biswa J

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Mar 28, 2020

A great course and worth taking it with the upcoming changes in Digital currency world.

By Antonio R

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Sep 10, 2018

Is an excelente course to be introduced in the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchain concept.

By Gustavo M

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Jan 1, 2022

Great overview. I enjoyed the course very much. A lot of additional material to review

By Trần H V

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Dec 29, 2021

Provide first look about blokchain network very well, thank you so much for everything

By Aditya C

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Jul 23, 2020

This course was really very good and it has helped me to gain knowledge on Blockchain.