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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

Mar 15, 2019

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.

SJ

Apr 6, 2022

very good course it starts from basics and provides a amazing learning path , they focus on your self study rasher than spoon feeding like other courses ,which is the best thing of this course .

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By Harikrishnan. K

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Jul 9, 2023

Best course on blockchain fundamentals

By Duy H

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May 28, 2022

Good lecturer with rich lesson content

By Nehansh J

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May 24, 2021

On point course for complete beginners

By Raja B

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Apr 29, 2020

Best for learning basics of blockchain

By Benoy M

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Apr 20, 2020

Great course for fundamental knowledge

By Volker S

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Oct 30, 2019

Really helpful for basic understanding

By Hieu T

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Mar 29, 2019

Excellent; well coverage of the topics

By Olson T

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Oct 13, 2018

An excellent way to get new learnings!

By Andrew

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Jul 28, 2018

Very helpful to know blockchain basics

By Luis R

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Jul 12, 2018

Excelente contenido, muy recomendable.

By shoaib a

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Jul 13, 2023

it is a good begginer friendly course

By Eric P

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Jun 4, 2022

A very educational course. Well done!

By Birendra K

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Dec 26, 2021

Amazing starter course for beginners

By binoj v

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Aug 4, 2021

Course material is easy to understand

By Santosh S

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Jul 6, 2020

One of the Best Course on Blockchain.

By Nasurudeen A N

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May 11, 2020

Very Good Teaching Thank you Coursera

By Ritik B

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Apr 29, 2020

crystal clear explanation of concepts

By Maikel R

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Oct 14, 2018

Classes well designed and well taught

By ABHINEET S

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Jul 18, 2021

A Great Learning Experience Indeed !

By AMIT S

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Jun 4, 2021

Excellent course to learn the basics

By Mario A S

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May 11, 2021

Excellent introduction to blockchain

By Sunanda V

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Dec 25, 2020

I loved the course thanks Miss. BIna

By Sam P P

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Jun 24, 2020

Useful and highly informative courss

By Kaushik R

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Jan 8, 2020

excellent, completed in just 3 days!

By gaocen

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Nov 13, 2019

a good start for long journey to go.