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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Blockchain Basics by University at Buffalo

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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

RH

May 4, 2019

The course is well designed to give you an overview of Blockchain and the basic concepts. What is Smart Contract and other various terminologies and how they play a role in the blockchain. Thanks

MK

Mar 15, 2019

Very nicely arranged course and very informative. Learned a lot in no time. Only hurdle is The Ethereum Virtual machine takes hell lot of time in the Miner step. rest all fine. thanks a lot.

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By Antosh M D

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May 2, 2020

Wonderful Experience with hands on session.

By Shubham K

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Apr 5, 2020

It was really a knowledge enhancing course.

By Miguel C

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Apr 3, 2020

Basic stuff, but good if you are new to it.

By Chathura R

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Apr 2, 2020

grate course to learn basics of block chain

By Ekaterina M

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Dec 11, 2018

Really great course! Recommend to everyone.

By AVINASH A

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Aug 14, 2018

Great course. Up from basics. Nicely built.

By Do C A

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Aug 8, 2018

Basics Information about Bitcoin Blockchain

By AVILA J

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Apr 23, 2021

Thanks Coursera and Buffalo University....

By Itzcoatl R P V

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Oct 5, 2020

Clear and concise insights into blockchain

By sunil j

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Sep 11, 2020

amazing instructor and well planned course

By Lakshit M

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Jul 18, 2020

Best course for building blockchain basics

By Vinod R

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Jun 12, 2020

an interactive way of teaching Thanks bina

By Saurav S 1

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Jun 5, 2020

What a helpful course hats off to coursera

By Md. M

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Nov 13, 2019

Great One. Learned a lot from this series.

By Michael M

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Oct 13, 2019

Excellent survey course for further study.

By nguyen m H

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Jun 6, 2019

Supporting Vietnamese make me to go faster

By Zohaib A

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Mar 8, 2019

Awesome experience with Mam Still learning

By Arun.Kumar.Gupta

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Jan 16, 2019

Very good course and structured very well.

By Arpit S

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Nov 3, 2018

Very nice course. Thank you. Learnt a lot!

By Alon G

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Sep 17, 2018

Excellent course for the very beginners ..

By Томилова Н И

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Jul 29, 2023

Thank you, I learned a lot of new things.

By Anukul C

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Jan 26, 2022

very well explained + beginner's friendly

By MUHAMMED M

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Sep 26, 2020

Great course for beginners in Block chain

By Rana V S

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May 30, 2020

IT was great learning blockchain with you

By John D

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Feb 3, 2020

An in-depth look at how blockchain works.