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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

SJ

Feb 4, 2022

Really l​earned a lot about the fundamentals of blockchain, being a software engineer looking into blockchain. It just got me up to speed with the underlying workflow of blockchain and more. loved it.

TT

Nov 18, 2018

This is an introductory course to Blockchain. The supplemented material (in other words self-study) is excellent and in my opinion is the only way to master the concepts and details of this discipline

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By Madan s

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Mar 24, 2020

just one word fab

By Priyasharan G

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Jan 22, 2020

Fantastic teacher

By Devsen D M

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Jan 21, 2020

Loved this course

By Nguyen K

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Apr 27, 2019

Thank you so much

By Alexander S

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Sep 10, 2018

very basic but ok

By Eric H

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Jun 1, 2018

Fantastic Course!

By pradyumn s

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Feb 11, 2025

very informative

By Kader n

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Jul 15, 2023

very informative

By SUKRUTA J

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Jan 11, 2023

Very good Course

By sunil j

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Nov 25, 2022

Nice explanation

By ANIRUDH P (

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Nov 13, 2022

quality material

By Syed S A

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Feb 28, 2022

VERY NICE COURSE

By Ali K

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Nov 8, 2021

Short and strong

By TAKSHA L

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Oct 18, 2021

Very good Course

By D B

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Sep 12, 2021

Excellent Course

By Imran A S

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Jun 3, 2021

Great Experience

By abdelbasset w

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Sep 23, 2020

excellent course

By Edwar A P R

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Aug 31, 2020

Excellent course

By KARTHIK V 1

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Jul 30, 2020

Good information

By Ahmed B

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Apr 2, 2020

very infomative.

By Gabriel P R

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Oct 30, 2018

Very goog course

By Carlos L

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Nov 8, 2021

Excelent course

By Het G

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Jul 24, 2021

Very insightful

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!