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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 david z a

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Oct 14, 2019

excelente curso gracias

By Pablo Z R

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Aug 30, 2019

Very interesting course

By Prathamesh S

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Jul 3, 2019

Its Excellent course...

By Arun K S

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May 17, 2019

very good for beginners

By Manideep R

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Sep 23, 2018

Lot of useful info.....

By Anagha P B

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Nov 4, 2024

very beginner friendly

By Ruchika P

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Jan 12, 2023

VERY CLEAR EXPLANATION

By Jose I O

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Dec 12, 2021

Excelente introducción

By anusha r r

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Jul 13, 2021

Perfect place to learn

By Piyush S

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Sep 19, 2020

Cheers to Coursera!!!!

By SHUBHAM N

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Jul 8, 2020

Good course for Basics

By pardeep

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Jun 22, 2020

The course is amazing.

By Fasiha Z

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Jun 1, 2020

outstanding experience

By Nidhi N

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May 7, 2020

VERY GOOD EXPLAINATION

By Muhammad Z H

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Mar 1, 2020

Excellent Learned alot

By Aravind K D

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Nov 16, 2018

Good Course Structure.

By Carlos R L A

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Oct 31, 2018

Excelente, me encantó.

By Piyush R

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Nov 10, 2022

Great Experience ever

By SAMIR O

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May 8, 2022

The best explanation!

By Roberto M

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Jan 21, 2022

Very good and extense

By SMAIL M

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Jul 5, 2021

really it was amazing

By Muhammad H A

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Aug 5, 2020

Very good explanation

By Shourya P

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Dec 7, 2018

Very Good information

By BATIS

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Oct 18, 2018

An Excellent Course !

By Kapil N

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Jun 7, 2018

excellent explanation