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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 SHAZIB A

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Jun 7, 2023

good course

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Nov 5, 2022

Good Course

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May 4, 2021

Good course

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Sep 25, 2020

Nice Course

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Sep 4, 2020

good course

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Jun 19, 2020

nice course

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Jun 6, 2020

nice course

By Alpana M

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May 1, 2020

Interesting

By Sagar K

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Mar 3, 2019

It was good

By Alexander S

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Jul 17, 2018

Very good.

By Neha A G

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Oct 1, 2022

Helpfull

By Anup K P

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Oct 4, 2020

Excellent

By Santiago L

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Nov 18, 2024

Muy útil

By Ignacio Z

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Dec 4, 2020

Good!!!!

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Mar 20, 2022

nice

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Feb 5, 2022

nice

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Aug 24, 2021

NICE

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Aug 15, 2021

Good

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Mar 4, 2021

good

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good

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Jul 25, 2020

nice

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Jul 17, 2020

good

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May 19, 2020

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May 14, 2020

good