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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

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.

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

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By Pavel M

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Jan 15, 2022

fast and interesting

By Dat T

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Jan 13, 2022

highly recommend for

By Daniel A B T

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Nov 5, 2021

Claridad en el tema.

By krishnan

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Aug 10, 2020

Good and Interactive

By Aditya K

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Jul 24, 2020

Teacher was awesome.

By Travel w S

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Jun 29, 2020

The course was great

By Reema A

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May 4, 2020

really usefull learn

By Nitish M

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Dec 19, 2019

Very awsum for start

By YC

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Jan 25, 2019

very well structured

By Alicia W

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Jul 10, 2018

Thank you very much!

By Angelo E

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Jul 3, 2023

Muy bueno el curso.

By Luat N

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Dec 20, 2022

Highly educational!

By Manish K

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Sep 13, 2022

Outstanding Course

By Alter E

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Jul 30, 2022

I enjoyed every bit

By Franco D G Q

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May 18, 2022

es un muy bue curso

By bhagath v

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Jun 9, 2021

Good one start with

By Rittwika S D

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Feb 6, 2021

Teacher is awesome.

By Ronan D m

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Jul 31, 2020

Great introduction!

By Naman T

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Jul 21, 2020

exceptional course.

By CHRISTOPHER G O M

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Jul 3, 2020

Excelente contenido

By Hander B

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Dec 16, 2019

Excellent course!!!

By Nagavardhan R

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Mar 27, 2019

Very informative...

By Mohit C

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Mar 5, 2019

Great explaination.

By Paulo C

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Feb 5, 2022

Excellent content!

By SASWIN V

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Jan 17, 2022

EXCELLENT TEACHING