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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 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 Diá»…n N

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Jan 10, 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 11, 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 23, 2020

very Informative Course

By Stephanny S

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Jul 15, 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.

By david z a

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Oct 14, 2019

excelente curso gracias

By Pablo Z R

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Aug 30, 2019

Very interesting course

By Prathamesh S

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Jul 3, 2019

Its Excellent course...

By Arun K S

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May 17, 2019

very good for beginners

By Manideep R

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Sep 23, 2018

Lot of useful info.....

By Ruchika P

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Jan 12, 2023

VERY CLEAR EXPLANATION

By Jose I O

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Dec 12, 2021

Excelente introducción

By anusha r r

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Jul 13, 2021

Perfect place to learn

By Piyush S

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Sep 19, 2020

Cheers to Coursera!!!!

By SHUBHAM N

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Jul 8, 2020

Good course for Basics

By pardeep

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Jun 22, 2020

The course is amazing.