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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 5, 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

KA

Sep 24, 2020

Some of the course links don't work. The instruction for installation of virtual machine needs updating. I'm hoping the other courses in the specialisation go into more depth, as this is very basic.

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By Bikrant M

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Jul 13, 2020

I really understand the concept of Blockchain.

By Shubham D

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May 2, 2020

Very good and useful for beginners. Thank you.

By siddhant d

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Nov 18, 2018

The course was precise and upto the standards.

By Eduardo E B

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Jun 5, 2018

Great course! Super helpful and easy to follow

By Nikolay M

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Aug 30, 2022

it was really difficult but very interesting!

By Samruddhi T

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Jan 28, 2022

Good course for basic learning of blockchain.

By Diego C

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Jul 16, 2021

Me encantó, aprendí bastante sobre blockchain

By Deleted A

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Jul 14, 2021

Excellent Basic Introduction to Blockchain..

By Anindya G

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May 22, 2020

I like the practical ethereum mining session.

By Manjeet D

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Oct 7, 2018

great course to learn blockchain fundamentals

By Diego I M

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Mar 15, 2022

Excelente curso para iniciarce en blockchain

By CINDHE R

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Nov 13, 2020

Course was excellent for absolute beginners.

By Sourav D

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May 23, 2020

As a basic level course it is well designed.

By Ian C

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Dec 15, 2019

It's a great course, a tightly fit beginner.

By Partha S

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Sep 28, 2019

One of the best cources in Blockchain basics

By Abdul W B

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Jul 25, 2019

Excellent teaching skills and course content

By Naing M A

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Aug 4, 2018

Excellent Introductory Course on Blockchain!

By Yuv R

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Jul 5, 2022

Amazing course. Got to learn so many things

By Donnel C

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Jun 3, 2022

great introduction to blockchain mechanics

By Ritik P

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Apr 24, 2022

great course for learning blockchain basics

By Olatoye D

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Jan 3, 2022

I would recommend this course for beginners

By John S

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Dec 31, 2021

The course is presented at the right level.

By Aniket T

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Jun 29, 2021

It's a ery good course. i totally loved it.

By Michael G

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Jun 15, 2021

Great introduction to blockchain technology

By David M M

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Sep 12, 2020

Amazing first approach to the BC technology