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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

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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.

SR

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the blockchain concept is gonna be a revolutionary one in every field.

this course is very helpful and easily understandable for every one irrespective of the background from which they came

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By Ojas D

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Aug 6, 2020

Great for people interested in decentralized forms the internet

By Akash M K

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May 12, 2020

Really great experience , Awesome staff and there way to teach.

By Supriya S B

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May 4, 2020

Its nice course and many doubts of Blockchain basics are clear.

By Prabuddh K A

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Sep 14, 2019

Awesome Course for Beginners and Experts as well. A must to do.

By Narayana G

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Feb 1, 2019

Very informative, with broader links to concepts / experts' opi

By Guillermo M

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Jul 27, 2018

Awesome course to start or learn some details behind blockchain

By Larry

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Jul 24, 2024

This is a great course for beginners to understand blockchain.

By Chandrabalan C

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Feb 18, 2023

Yup this is an amazing course. thanks for giving this course .

By Mohamed K

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Jun 28, 2022

Great course

I have learned alot from this.

Thank you very much.

By susmit p

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Aug 14, 2021

excellent content and innovative and thought-provoking quizzes

By Yash A C

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Jun 26, 2021

This is a great beginners course to the basics of Blockchain.

By GUERRINI A

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Nov 20, 2020

Well explained by the super professional professor. Thank you.

By INDURKAR M M

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Aug 15, 2020

i am very much satisfied with the course content and delivery.

By Technology C

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Jun 10, 2020

it is very informative and the explanation method is very good

By Pushpendra H

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May 30, 2020

Oustanding Teaching ! Very precise contents featured out here.

By Nachiket K D

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May 22, 2020

For a beginner it's a very good course to get into blockchain.

By naveen v R

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May 7, 2020

very good teaching and quality materials. 5 star worth course.

By Veera P

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Oct 19, 2019

The course has provided me a brief introduction on blockchain.

By Danilo R V

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Oct 17, 2019

The course provides a great overview of blockchain technology.

By Gyanesh K

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Oct 16, 2018

Good Course to encourage the students to think about future!!!

By Luis P

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Aug 27, 2018

It is a very nice courses, they really make the things simpler

By Daniel C

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Jun 7, 2018

The project help give me an idea on how to make the blockchain

By hanzla A

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Mar 8, 2023

that's an amazing course to learn and start with blochchain.

By Wolfgang K

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Aug 26, 2021

Amazing course with great content and very good presentation!