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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 Amr M E

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Aug 25, 2018

I really enjoyed the simplified approach of learning and mostly hands-on project @ the end of the course

By Luis F B A

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Apr 17, 2023

Awesome content, but some things need to be updated cause nowadays crypto envorinment has changed a lot

By Navid N

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Mar 6, 2023

One of the simple and fluent courses to get acquainted with the basic concepts of Blockchain. thank you

By Keondre L

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Nov 16, 2021

Very descriptive and provided a lot of information that presented in a way that was easy to understand.

By Михаил Д

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Nov 11, 2021

This is a very interesting introduction course to blockchain technology. Good and informative material.

By Sanju A

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Mar 4, 2020

Perfect course to learn blockchain concepts and get experience of creating a new blockchain transaction

By Narsinh

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Oct 9, 2018

Perhaps a small issue but more clarity in setting up the environment in the last assignment would help.

By ARGHYADIP G

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May 4, 2020

the instructor is too good she had cleared each and every concepts and the contents are also very good

By Yogesh S

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Apr 24, 2020

Enjoyed the course thoroughly

Look forward to learn a lot more & build my expertise- one step at a time

By Sameer M

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Oct 13, 2019

This course is easy to understand basics of blockchain.. One should definitely learn from this course.

By JOSE G B S

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Jan 19, 2021

Excelente curso, justo lo que he estado buscando como punto de partida para el desarrollo de mi tesis

By DHVANI F

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Aug 10, 2020

Helped me to understand basic concepts of blockchain. Thanks to coursera for providing such courses!!

By Ashwin S

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Jun 9, 2020

Professor Bina Ma'am and the proper guidance by the coursera made it possible to complete this course

By Nileen G

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Aug 29, 2019

This was very good content. I loved the programming assignment. it helped understand how things work

By Dissirama E

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Jan 13, 2019

C'est un très bon cours qui nous permet d'avoir les notions de base sur la Blockchain!! Je suis ravi.

By Dipak G

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Aug 31, 2020

Blockchain basics has a clear objective of what needs to be taught to make this technology relevant.

By Vinit K

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Sep 8, 2021

Wonderful course on blockchain. Its really knowledgeable program. And i loved the final assignment.

By Devang P B

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Dec 28, 2020

This course is very helpful to me. I learned many great things about the blockchain in this course.

By OSIMOKUN E O

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Oct 11, 2020

I'm really happy to be having such an amazing experience with the service rendered by the platform.

By Urvashi K

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Sep 2, 2018

Great course for getting started with the basics of blockchain and understanding its core concepts.

By Jinwei T

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Sep 10, 2021

Easy to follow for beginners and well done on providing a practical project via a virtual machine.

By Abhishek J G

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Apr 28, 2020

Great learning experience. I had no prior knowledge about Blockchain and it was really insightful.

By Gaurav V

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Oct 15, 2021

It definetely was so rich in information but the pace of some topics could have been a bit slower

By Hritika K

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Aug 30, 2020

As I operate from windows, the assignment was too tough. Leaving that part everything was perfect

By Rodrigo T B

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Aug 25, 2020

I really enjoyed this course, the explanations are remarkable and everything is interesting 10/10