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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

TT

Nov 19, 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

SJ

Feb 5, 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.

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By SWAPNIL S S

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Apr 30, 2020

Excellent course

By Sagar P

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Oct 27, 2018

Very Good Course

By Aansh J S

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Jun 3, 2020

Course is good.

By Vipin K

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Sep 20, 2020

Well explained

By Pasupuleti S

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May 26, 2020

It was useful

By Sumit S

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Jan 14, 2020

Till now good

By Prof. S

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Jun 1, 2020

Good Course.

By Nitin S S

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May 10, 2020

Good course.

By ABHISHEK K

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Mar 31, 2020

Good overall

By SHAZIB A

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Jun 7, 2023

good course

By Swarup K M

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Nov 5, 2022

Good Course

By SHRE A R

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May 4, 2021

Good course

By Ritik G

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Sep 25, 2020

Nice Course

By Amana R

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Sep 4, 2020

good course

By ABHIMANYU B

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Jun 19, 2020

nice course

By ABHISHEK G

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Jun 6, 2020

nice course

By Alpana M

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May 1, 2020

Interesting

By Sagar K

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Mar 3, 2019

It was good

By Alexander S

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Jul 18, 2018

Very good.

By Neha A G

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Oct 1, 2022

Helpfull

By Anup K P

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Oct 4, 2020

Excellent

By Santiago L

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Nov 18, 2024

Muy útil

By Ignacio Z

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Dec 5, 2020

Good!!!!

By chandan j

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Mar 20, 2022

nice

By UiRa

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Feb 5, 2022

nice