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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

LR

Jul 30, 2019

Comprehensive and clear course that summarize the basic concepts to understand the blockchain technology. Also the resources and contents included are very valuables. I totally recommend this course.

MK

Mar 16, 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 Paulo C

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Feb 6, 2022

Excellent content!

By SASWIN V

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Jan 17, 2022

EXCELLENT TEACHING

By MOHAMMED M I

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Aug 23, 2021

awesome experience

By Thanat S

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Jan 7, 2021

easy to understand

By Arnab R

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Dec 2, 2020

Very well designed

By Amith K S

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Jul 30, 2020

really wonderful..

By Mr. M A B M

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Jul 20, 2020

Good for beginners

By Augustine S

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May 31, 2020

very useful course

By Piyush B

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May 19, 2020

Really nice course

By Akash B

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Apr 18, 2020

Good for beginners

By ankan d

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Oct 9, 2018

Very nice course!!

By Vijay S

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Sep 9, 2018

Very Informative!!

By Arun A

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Aug 8, 2018

Decent 101 for BC.

By Andrea B

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Aug 2, 2018

Excellent MOC !!!!

By Gouri S S

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Jul 29, 2018

Excellent Content.

By Jyotirmai B

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Jul 11, 2018

outstanding course

By Marc A

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Jun 14, 2018

Excellent content.

By Hieu N T

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Jul 22, 2025

good for beginner

By Liuxing X

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Oct 12, 2023

very good classes

By AKASH O

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May 14, 2023

very nice lecture

By Oussama L

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Feb 8, 2023

its a good course

By Mihiraj W

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Nov 19, 2022

Very Smart Course

By Niloy M

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Jan 30, 2022

Practicaland nice

By Keith H

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Nov 17, 2021

That was awesome!

By Osama S

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Apr 15, 2021

The lecturer ever