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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

SJ

Feb 4, 2022

Really l​earned a lot about the fundamentals of blockchain, being a software engineer looking into blockchain. It just got me up to speed with the underlying workflow of blockchain and more. loved it.

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 gaocen

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Nov 13, 2019

a good start for long journey to go.

By Julie A

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Sep 23, 2018

Great stater for blockchain study !!

By A. R A

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Oct 20, 2023

thanks very much! very resourceful!

By Suryarao N

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Aug 19, 2022

Great course on blockchain basics.

By Gaurav M

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May 30, 2020

good beginner course for blockchain

By Saqib A

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May 26, 2020

explain in a very unique way thanks

By Dr. R I

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May 24, 2020

Good course planning and execution.

By Pruthvi

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Aug 4, 2019

Thank you for the wonderful course.

By Abhishek J

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Jul 30, 2019

Brilliant ! Well crafted ! Precise!

By Vinit V M

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Apr 5, 2019

Awesome explation about blockchain.

By TSEBO C M C

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Nov 26, 2018

well structured and detailed course

By Srinivasa G

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Sep 3, 2018

Very Informative and Trendy Course.

By Pablo H M C

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Apr 17, 2022

Consice, full of good information

By Tushar S

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Jun 8, 2020

very very good material provided!!

By Sagnik G

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Apr 12, 2020

A good introduction to Blockchain.

By Ahmed M

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Jan 6, 2019

Good for basic blockchain concepts

By Enrique V

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Nov 12, 2018

Good way to meet block chain world

By Julien E

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Aug 5, 2018

Excellent initiation to blockchain

By Arpit G

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Jul 12, 2018

Course was good but in the project

By Devender S

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Jun 2, 2023

In-Depth Knowledge of Blockchain.

By Shubhankar N

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Jan 4, 2023

Thank you for this experience! :D

By Gulam M J

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Dec 28, 2021

Was very helpful as am a beginner

By Jeffrey C

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Nov 25, 2021

Great intro to Blockchain basics.

By Harsh A

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Nov 18, 2021

Very well defined and nice course

By Kanish A

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Sep 30, 2021

Nice programming assignment setup