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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 Achint S

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Jul 1, 2019

A good course on Blockchain

By Kiran K

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Jun 25, 2019

The course is very helpful.

By Ankit k v

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Jul 25, 2023

excellent course and tutor

By Mudassir I

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May 15, 2022

Good course for begineers.

By vikas g

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Dec 2, 2021

Excellent content delivery

By punit k a

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Aug 29, 2021

it was an great experience

By 270_SWATI T

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Jan 5, 2021

Amazing course instructor!

By Soumyajit M

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Sep 17, 2020

Great Course for beginners

By Dhruv D

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Oct 26, 2019

great peice of information

By Rahul S

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Aug 29, 2019

I was a great experience.

By Rahul R P

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Aug 3, 2019

Excellent explanation ever

By Bharathi G

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Jun 29, 2019

Simple way of Introduction

By Dong A

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Dec 28, 2018

really helpful to beginner

By Emmanuel D

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Jun 24, 2018

Clear and concise material

By Wilson P G

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Feb 20, 2025

muito prático e intuitivo

By Rajiv P

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Dec 10, 2022

Well explained, Thank You

By Anurag Y

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Jul 21, 2022

great learning experience

By Lasha K

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May 2, 2022

Nice guide for beginners!

By Anshu P

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Mar 28, 2022

Really Informative Course

By Deepak “ V

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Aug 6, 2021

Good intro for Beginners.

By Mehmet A

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Jan 25, 2021

Thanks to Bina Ramamurthy

By Andrei A ( D

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Jan 13, 2021

Great course, theanks!!!!

By Akash V

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Aug 5, 2020

Great learning experience

By Solaiyapparaja B

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May 24, 2020

Good Course for Beginners

By Mahabub A

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May 20, 2020

It is an excellent course