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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

U

Dec 31, 2019

One of the Best course for Absolutely Beginners :-) Discussed Core Fundamental Factors of Blockchain of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Amazing Resources & Really Helpful Content. Thanks Bina Ramamurthy Ma'am.

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By Sushan B

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Aug 22, 2022

Anyone who wants to start form scratch must do course in domain of blockchain

By Paolo W

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Jan 13, 2022

Very suitable for noobies to get a first touch with the blockchain technology

By Dr.Patil D D

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Oct 25, 2021

Basics are clearly explained, but required mode explanations about practical.

By Kyoko K

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Jul 14, 2021

There are lots of good resources to learn and leaded me to understand deeply.

By SANJAY C

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Feb 4, 2021

Course framed very good for beginners to understand Block chain basic concept

By Ruel A

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Jan 18, 2019

Soft landing to basics. Must have for developers who wants to learn Solidity.

By Avinash S

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Jan 13, 2022

Very nice explanation of Blockchain basics with good examples and use cases.

By Dragonfly_19

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Oct 5, 2021

It is a good course to get started with the intro and basics for blockchain.

By Gunjan S

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Aug 26, 2021

This course I found it useful to understand the basic concept of Blockchain

By jorge m

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Aug 10, 2021

El mejor curso de blockchain que he tomado sin requerir conocimiento previo.

By OMKAR P

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Jun 27, 2020

very nice course with good explanation and great reading and video materials

By Mohamed A A

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Dec 21, 2019

A great course to start with if you want to get into the field of blockchain

By Izuchukwu E

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Dec 3, 2023

A very rich and concise course curriculum. Cheers to the course creators !!

By MANO D

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Nov 22, 2022

Its very clear and easy to learn. Assignment makes stranger in the concept.

By Kushwanth P

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Sep 30, 2022

An indepth and insightful course. Learnt a lot about the blockchain basics

By CongTM1

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Oct 9, 2021

The last exercise is quite interesting If you can, you should give it a try

By Yoel R

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Aug 2, 2021

great intro to blockchain course! learned a lot that i didn't know before.

By Sudarshan B

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Jan 25, 2021

To get an understanding of the Bascis of Block Chain this is a good course.

By GIUSTO E

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Nov 17, 2020

This course is very clear and interesting. The real strenght is the teacher

By ashwini k

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Jun 4, 2020

Good to begin with block chain course. liked the practical assignment part

By DEBAYAN D (

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Feb 22, 2019

One of the best Block chain course i have come across till date . Thank you

By Mohammad Z

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Nov 21, 2022

Very thorough and detailed course about the blockchain and cryptocurrency.

By Dat T

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Mar 20, 2022

This is one of the most outstanding blockchain courses that one can offer.

By Srijan V

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Apr 24, 2021

Great course, looking forward for the next courses in this specialization.

By Mr . S

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Jun 3, 2020

Excellent course on the fundamentals of Blockchain, specifically ethereum.