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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 Chinmay S D

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Aug 2, 2020

good experience

By Shaswata D

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May 16, 2020

Really helpful!

By ATONU G

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Mar 12, 2020

Awesome course.

By Guiller

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Apr 10, 2019

So far so good!

By Mabel L G B

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Mar 10, 2019

I like it a lot

By Thelemaque D

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Jan 21, 2019

Great course !!

By Angel A H

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Dec 31, 2018

Muy buen curso!

By Raymond P

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Oct 3, 2018

Loved it ! ;=)

By ANAS L

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Jul 26, 2018

Great resources

By Сарсенов Ж Х

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Mar 14, 2024

суперский курс

By Jahadis S

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Oct 19, 2022

Useful course

By Souvik M

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Aug 20, 2022

Amazing Course

By M I D

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Mar 15, 2022

Easy to follow

By Yoga P

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Aug 25, 2021

soo inspiring!

By Apurav D

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Jun 20, 2021

it was awesome

By Vasant j

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May 18, 2020

really amazing

By Kunal B

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May 8, 2020

Amazing course

By Sriman .

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Apr 29, 2020

new technology

By ANTHONY R

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Mar 7, 2019

Great overview

By Saikrishna M

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Dec 16, 2018

awesome course

By Ahmed T

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Oct 2, 2018

Great Course!!

By Nitish P

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Sep 29, 2018

Good contents.

By Leo

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Sep 23, 2018

Great starting

By Jacqueline C

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Dec 31, 2022

Great Course!