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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 Nikunj

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May 8, 2020

very good plateform for working professionals and Research scholors

By Ratkal

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Apr 29, 2020

Course was designed in well planned way to understand the beginners

By Unmesh D

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Apr 28, 2020

The course is really good to understand the basics of Blockchain !!

By Julio V

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May 5, 2019

As soon as I began I was fully engaged and could not stop learning!

By Dhanraj N

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Oct 8, 2023

Best course It will clear all the basics regarding the Blockchain.

By Sumukh N

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Jul 9, 2021

The Teacher was good the way she explained, made me to learn fast.

By Gabriel A M R

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Jun 20, 2020

i liked the form of explained, also the videos were very well made

By Mihir B

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Apr 24, 2020

The instructor was great, Nice Experienced to teach this institute

By Shivam

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Jul 30, 2019

It was a great learning experience. THanks, university of Buffalo.

By Prateek A

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Jun 18, 2019

It provides the basic theory conception for Block Chain Technology

By Nanda K

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Feb 18, 2019

Easy for the beginners who wants to learn a basics in Block chain.

By Vikas K

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Dec 16, 2023

beginer friendly and exciting Project at the end is cherry on top

By Nill

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Jan 19, 2022

It is a good for beginner. It's very easy to know the Blockchain.

By Aaryan S

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Jul 13, 2021

Exceptional Course with in-depth resources and practical project.

By John S

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Feb 19, 2021

This course lays a great foundation for understanding blockchain.

By Saswata H

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Jul 18, 2020

Excellent course for the basic understanding how blockchain works

By Atharva G P

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May 27, 2020

Excellent course, makes everyone generate interest in the course.

By Aarthi B

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May 18, 2020

Excellent teaching... and the practical sessions are very useful

By Robert N

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Jan 6, 2022

Great Course, improved my knowledge of the Blockchain technology

By Slok A

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Oct 12, 2021

Good quality Video Lectures for understanding blockchain basics.

By SIDDHANT P (

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Sep 1, 2021

Greatly explained. Got clear with basic ideas behind blockchain.

By Showkot H

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May 16, 2020

The course was very helpful to understand the basics. Thank you.

By Yash s

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Dec 31, 2019

best course on blockchain basics.instructor was very informative

By Youssef A

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Feb 26, 2022

perfect course to start understanding the blockchain technology

By Ojas D

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Aug 6, 2020

Great for people interested in decentralized forms the internet