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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 Fred R

Feb 8, 2019

Provides a good foundation for blockchain and Ethereum.

By Billy C

Sep 16, 2018

good introductory course for the concept of blockchain.

By Katya M

Mar 27, 2022

Very clear, concise, to the point, and easy to follow!

By Talha K

Sep 11, 2021

Definitely, the course was really helpful. Thank you !

By KONDWANI J

Sep 29, 2020

The course's content is well presented and simplified.

By Mehdi B

Mar 30, 2020

Great content, comprehensive and easily understandable

By Steffina M

Dec 9, 2019

wonderful course learnt complete basics of blockchain.

By Diego E P M

Sep 26, 2018

Good intro. to the basics of Blockchains: BTC and ETH.

By Biplab D

Jul 21, 2018

A great introduction to Blockchain basics and concepts

By IFEANYI R C ( R

Jun 6, 2022

The best course on Blockchain Basics that I have had!

By Victor R

Dec 19, 2021

Otimo curso para entender os conceitos de blcokchain

By Héctor U F d L L

Jul 24, 2021

Excellent introduction to all key concepts. Congrats!

By Neganov L E

Apr 2, 2021

Пожалуй, лучший вводный курс из всех, что я встречал!

By Rodolfo T V

Feb 4, 2021

Well structured. Good lessons. I enjoyed this course.

By Syed M H

Jan 20, 2021

It's gives detailed intro to blockchain. Taught well.

By Saikat D

May 18, 2019

Great to have some practical hands on in this course.

By Hari

Oct 23, 2018

A very good introduction into the world of Blockchain

By Sayan

Sep 29, 2018

An excellent way to introduce Blockchain to beginners

By Le T D

Jul 1, 2023

As a junior blockchain developer, I love this course

By Jessica A

Nov 10, 2022

Great course to introduce in blockchain environment.

By shadrach t

Aug 2, 2021

Great introduction into the blockchain technologies.

By Bokkisam R

Dec 23, 2019

this helps us to understand the basics of blockchain

By Samuel Y

Jun 3, 2019

Explicated important blockchain concepts thoroughly.

By Sourav K C

Feb 24, 2019

This introduction helped me in understand Blockchain

By Raheel N S

Oct 2, 2018

Excellent course and exceptional content and teacher