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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 Mónica V C C

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Nov 6, 2020

Great course, very clear, understandable and short

By Ashish K

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Nov 4, 2020

Thank You for great learning and nice arrangements

By Aditya K

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May 17, 2020

Great course... Gets you to work for certification

By D.Saveetha

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May 16, 2020

Very Clear Explanation of Blockchain Basics.

Kudos.

By Vikas S

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Apr 7, 2019

the way of teaching ,notes everything is excellent

By Bhalaji N

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Dec 14, 2018

Its a wonderful course for beginners in blockchain

By Adarsh K

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Oct 18, 2018

Great content, good beginner course on blockchain.

By suresh g

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Oct 16, 2018

helpful in understanding the Blockchain technology

By Maansi M B

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Sep 5, 2018

This is perfect for getting the basics. Go for it.

By Jon G

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Jun 13, 2018

Excellent teacher and very well structured course.

By Kartik P

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Sep 14, 2023

One of the best Course !! 👏

Strongly recommend 💯

By Saddam H

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Dec 25, 2021

I am so excited to complete this complete course.

By Paulo M

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Dec 15, 2021

ótimo curso para iniciar os estudos em blockchain

By Daljeet S

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Aug 29, 2021

good with hands on and nice introduction to start

By Boniface O

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May 2, 2021

Really easy course to learn basics of Blockchain!

By HARSH V S

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Oct 13, 2020

outdated, but great. please make updated lectures

By ODAI T A

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Sep 27, 2020

very wonderful course I have enjoyed a lot thanks

By Nagini S

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Sep 18, 2020

content is clear and very much easy to understand

By Muhammad A U H

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Jun 11, 2020

The content is super beginner friendly. Loved it.

By anugrah v t

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May 31, 2020

good basic knowledge is given through thes course

By Takeaki K

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May 21, 2020

Great work! Easy to grasp the high level concept!

By T.Adiline M

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May 6, 2020

Easy to understand and learn,great course content

By Fuad C

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Apr 24, 2020

Great initiative course for Blockchain beginners.

By Ermir H

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Jun 7, 2019

Great beginner content, love it, blockchain power

By Martin M

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Oct 2, 2018

Simple and Effective with added support documents