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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 Bibek J

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Nov 20, 2021

Great course its best for anyone who just started learning blockchain or intrested in knowing more about it i will recommend this to anyone.

By Siddhant G

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Jun 25, 2020

This is a great course and you can fairly have a nice idea of how the blockchain technology works and how you can use it for future purposes.

By Gabriel M

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Sep 4, 2018

Excellent course, great material and resources to learn about different blockchains (ETH & BTC) ,you get to learn a lot. Highly recommended!.

By Shashank K

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Jun 28, 2018

Really good!!!! I now feel very confident with blockchain basic. Thx to the expert faculty in this course. Highly recommend this to everyone.

By Afzal M

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Mar 23, 2023

One of the best course & very easy to understand. Great work by the teacher. Explained complicated concepts in a very easy way to understand

By Apoorv C

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Jun 12, 2020

People having no background in this filed can also learn lots of things. This introduction course gives you an idea of how blockchain works.

By Ricardo F

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May 2, 2022

I got surprised with such good content. I came from zero to Blockchain in 4 weeks. Now I few confident to continue my research and studies.

By Patrizio G

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Aug 6, 2020

detailed topics. I am a developer and I had already studied many things on my own, but I must say that coursera managed to fortify my bases

By Clovis D C

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Sep 3, 2019

I liked of explanation about previous technologies wich lead to incredible blockchain and that Blockchain word not was mention by Nakamoto.

By Paulo V D

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Apr 27, 2022

Great course with exceptional learning material (original from the course & external sources). Looking forward to finish the next modules.

By Duddu S

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Jan 21, 2019

Very good Naration, i have got clear understadning about Block chain, infact examples and the Ref project is very helpfull. thankyou-Team.

By Kena R

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Mar 31, 2022

What an amazing ourse, it really helps you from the complete beginner to a person confortabe with the basics of blockchain and some more!

By Reynolds D

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Apr 23, 2020

This course rightly emphasizes the basics of Blockchain. As a beginner, It's a treat to go through the learning material and assignments.

By Nikhil G

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May 18, 2019

An in depth introduction to block chain with relevant materials. This course helps in setting up a strong foundation to blockchain basics

By Bhanu B

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Mar 24, 2019

I'm so thankful to coursera for providing me the course under financial aid. Thank you so much. Looking forward to complete more courses.

By Rhonda B

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Feb 10, 2019

<3 Blockchain Basics It is a great course that provides one with complete details and references on the giving topic of Blockchain Basics

By Abdul K

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Mar 3, 2021

Learnt a lot from this course. Very much late on this topic, hope such revolutionary technologies emerge after I complete my education.

By Hafiz M Z E H

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Aug 22, 2019

Well designed and organized course taught basic concept related to blockchain basic one should know. Recommend this course to beginners.

By Umair K

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Aug 4, 2019

Exceptional course on the basics. Bina is an excellent professor and has a very unique way of teaching. Loved it, on to the next course.

By James O

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Sep 30, 2021

A great introduction to Blockchain. Would encourage anyone looking to get a comprehensive introduction into Bitcoin/Ethereum Blockchain

By Jerome C

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Feb 18, 2021

Very informative.

Instructor is very clear.

Great lab.

If you are new to blockchain, this is definately the course to start your learning.

By Woon J H

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May 22, 2020

A quick course that provides a great overview of Blockchain! The optional readings provide excellent material for deeper understanding.

By Aparajita O

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Aug 18, 2019

Like the course. Explained in a very clear way. However, I feel the difficulty level of quiz and assignments should be a little higher.

By Arun A K

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Oct 22, 2018

Have been very informative so far and looking forward to other courses in the specialization. Very much practical oriented assignments.

By Harsh R

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Jan 17, 2022

Enjoyed learning all the aspects of blockchain. Thank you University of Buffalo and Coursera for providing such an fascinating course.