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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 Mehta T H

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May 11, 2020

Loved to take this course

By abdelghafar

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Jan 24, 2020

thank you for your effort

By Bill L

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Jul 27, 2019

GREAT INTRODUCTORY COURSE

By mohammad r m

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Aug 2, 2023

prefect course to start.

By ANIRUDDHA B

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May 14, 2023

fucking excellent course

By Ehis F

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May 8, 2022

It was very informative

By DIANA J J

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Jan 6, 2022

The course was excellent

By Juan A

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Jun 25, 2021

great introductory curse

By Benjamin S

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Jul 10, 2020

Thank you, it was great!

By BOGGAVARAPU V S S H

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Jun 14, 2020

very good for beginners.

By Sneha J H D

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May 31, 2020

nice course for beginers

By Jason M

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Jan 20, 2020

Good intro to Blockchain

By Ahmadou M

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Mar 7, 2019

Great beginning course..

By Diễn N

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Jan 11, 2019

that's very interesting!

By Himanshu S

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Dec 16, 2018

Its an excellent course.

By Olasupo O

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Aug 9, 2018

Very simplified teaching

By Paul B

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Jan 3, 2022

Such a great course!!!!

By Ron C

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Oct 12, 2021

Thank you! Great Course

By Naison P

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Apr 23, 2021

Awesome and eye opening

By sanjivy r

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Feb 20, 2021

Very well structured!!!

By Kishan K S

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Jan 9, 2021

What an amazing course.

By Vatsala B

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Aug 24, 2020

very Informative Course

By Stephanny S

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Jul 16, 2020

Un curso super completo

By M S B Z

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May 19, 2020

very very worthy course

By Deepak P G

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May 5, 2020

it is very good course.