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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 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

SS

Jul 27, 2018

I find this course helpful to absolute beginner and for one who wants to grasp the basic concepts of Blockchain . The tutor tried to explain most part with simplicity and good and sufficient details.

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By Avnish K

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Jun 8, 2020

good course.

By Pankaj B

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Oct 15, 2018

Great course

By Subham D

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Mar 20, 2024

Best Course

By GIFT M

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Feb 19, 2024

exceptional

By Erfan S

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Aug 4, 2023

best course

By ali r

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Oct 15, 2022

just great

By phuc n

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Aug 9, 2022

good course

By PARTH Y

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Jan 29, 2022

good course

By Muhammad M R

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Jan 18, 2022

good course

By Aryanadi I C

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Jan 3, 2022

Excellent!

By Hafiz M A

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Dec 22, 2021

Exceptional

By Param P

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Oct 1, 2021

Easy Peesy!

By 18DCS027 A H

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Sep 11, 2021

Good course

By Sanket B

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Jun 20, 2021

Great intro

By JOSE R C U

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May 6, 2021

Nice course

By Kapil C

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Nov 8, 2020

Excellent !

By MONAVARTHI L S

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Sep 1, 2020

Good Course

By Richard G

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Aug 5, 2020

Excelente.!

By PAOLA C M

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Jul 14, 2020

Ambitionary

By Sarabjot S

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May 24, 2020

Great...!!!

By Edgar S

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Apr 16, 2020

Great Start

By Hemant

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Apr 6, 2020

best course

By Padmashree N S

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Apr 2, 2020

Nice course

By Gapur K

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Jan 1, 2020

Good course

By Jean W

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Oct 22, 2019

interesting