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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 Sidharth

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Aug 2, 2018

Good for knowing the basics

By Harsh V S

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Aug 22, 2020

Great Course and resources

By Vikram G

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May 13, 2020

IT WAS A NICE EXPERIENCE!!

By Syed A J

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Oct 12, 2018

Well explained everything.

By NISHANT J

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Apr 15, 2020

the course is excellent!!

By SAMPAT K G

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Apr 25, 2020

Great for a beginners!!

By Anitha B

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Jul 25, 2018

Good knowledge sharing

By Deleted A

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Mar 10, 2019

Basics are very good

By Ayushi M

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Feb 21, 2019

Very Well explained!

By sarath k

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Jun 25, 2018

good and interesting

By Rafael A J L

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Feb 18, 2021

A little too basic.

By G S V R

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May 21, 2020

Great teaching.....

By Aarti v

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Apr 17, 2020

great course!!!!!!!

By pochadri a

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Nov 5, 2018

very well presented

By Lizgeorge

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Jul 12, 2020

Very Useful Course

By gaozhipeng

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Dec 29, 2019

Good introduction

By Sukanya B

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Nov 29, 2020

VERY INFORMATIVE

By SWAPNIL S S

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Apr 30, 2020

Excellent course

By Sagar P

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Oct 27, 2018

Very Good Course

By Aansh J S

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Jun 3, 2020

Course is good.

By Vipin K

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Sep 19, 2020

Well explained

By Pasupuleti S

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May 26, 2020

It was useful

By Sumit S

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Jan 14, 2020

Till now good

By Prof. S

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Jun 1, 2020

Good Course.

By Nitin S S

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May 10, 2020

Good course.

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