Mar 11, 2018
Great course, a very broad and in-depth overview of concepts surrounding cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin in particular. Would be great to have an update of course; perhaps once the ICO craze is over? (-:
Dec 23, 2017
I've gained a strong knowledge of Bitcoin's architecture but wish this course was updated to include the developments of the last two years. A few lectures on alt-coins would have been useful as well.
por Yusong S
•Jul 01, 2018
Clear and comprehensive, with well design programming assignments
por Christian L
•Dec 04, 2017
Great course, and I've done many on Crypto.
por John M
•Apr 02, 2017
Well paced, very informative, challenging enough.
por Jiangchun L
•Mar 15, 2017
The course is quite great! At least I wouldn't be silly when talking about the Bitcoin stuff. However, students like me who don't have any previous knowledge about crypto technologies should first read through the text book.....
por Leonardo F
•Sep 19, 2017
Simple Great!
por 苏东坡
•Mar 07, 2018
very userful
por Nguyen D D
•Feb 07, 2017
Very helpful to understand Cryptocurrency!
por Kedar J
•Nov 07, 2017
This was a great course that gave me introduction to diverse topics ranging from Cryptography, Consensus in distributed systems, blockchains and bitcoin of course. It is true that the course is a bit outdated (from pre Etherium days) however, anyone who wants to have a great understanding of foundations of bitcoin blockchain will still find it useful.
The assignments are designed to test your understanding and I did have to refer to some additional material on bitcoin.org to understand some of the concepts. Also I had to learn Java to complete the assignments. For Java experts, the assignments may not be very tough to deliver.
Lastly, I would like to give a huge shoutout to the mentors. They are very responsive with the questions and the course has a good vibrant discussion forum. You are likely to find answers to all the questions you may have while taking this course.
por Mark K
•Dec 20, 2017
The best explanations of the technology
por Daniel Z
•Dec 02, 2017
From technology to economics and politics, every related perspective are covered in this amazing course.
However, I see a big gap between "finish the course with 100% points" and "being able to read Bitcoin Core source code". I hope another hardcore course could cover this gap.
Thanks for all the instructors, forum mentors and whoever contributed to this course.
por Sergi C
•Mar 05, 2017
This course is a glorified Nakamoto whitepaper. It explains every nuance of it and goes beyond that. Even for scientists looking to do research on cryptocurrencies this course is a valuable reference to get some hints on where it might be worth investigating. All of these without feeling too scientific or informal.
Assignments are a little inconvenient at first, but they provide a good insight on some details which need practice to understand.
Overall, definitely highly recommended.
por Morvay G
•Aug 28, 2017
Excellent course! Really liked that it was not very micro detail oriented. The emphasis was more about the concept and potentials and it gave a good motivation to look up some details on the Web. From here it is quite easy to submerge into the implementation if somebody is interested. I highly recommend this course.
por WAI K C J
•Nov 16, 2017
A complete course for bitcoin!! Everything you need to and want to know is here!
por Dmytro N
•Nov 15, 2017
Very cool introduction to cryptocurrency understanding.
por rajnandanrai
•Nov 07, 2017
great program
por Kiran K A
•Oct 23, 2017
Very good content. I learnt a lot and a lot of concepts became very clear. The programming exercises really enhanced my understanding of the concepts. Suggestions for improvements : The pop quizzes that pop up at the end of each video can be more, and also can pop up at random places in a video. Programming assignment grading and suggestions where failures occurred can be better. A bit more explanation on what exactly needs to be solved via programming assignments while not giving away the solutions/answers will help students learn the content/concepts faster.
por Giovanni A
•Apr 05, 2017
This course gave me a good understanding of Bitcoin and fundamental mechanisms of main alternative cryptocurrencies. A good balance between theory and programming assignments helps to to deepen the understanding of matter. I found particularly interesting the explanation of how Bitcoin achieves decentralization. I was also surprised to find how many different applications could benefit from a decentralized infrastructure similar to the Bitcoin network.
por Apoorva K A
•Jul 01, 2017
Lectures gave a clear and basic depiction of Bitcoins and Cryptocurrencies.
por Zhu L
•Mar 25, 2018
Great course, with materials concerning both technical and sociological aspects of blockchain and cryptocurrency.
I think there can be more exercises and programming assgnments for learners.
por Aleksandra B
•Jan 17, 2018
It was one of the best courses I've ever done. The lectures were prepared very well and gave a broad a well as close view of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. The assignments were fun to complete. I enjoyed doing this course a lot. The one thing to complain is, the lectures are from 2014 and there were certain updates in cryptocurrencies in those 4 years.
por Rahul M
•Oct 15, 2017
Getting to learn a lot about Bitcoin and how cryptocurrencies work. Best course I have attended till date
por Michael K
•Mar 12, 2018
Nice thorough intro.
por Oludare J O
•Jan 20, 2018
A very concise and detailed insight into cryptocurrecies, block chain and the applications thereof using Bitcoin as a platform to explain. I learnt an awful lot.
por Ariel R
•Oct 27, 2017
Fantastic gateway to the world of Bitcoin.
por Zoltán M
•Nov 01, 2017
Excellent course, very insightful. The assignments are rather hard, and you have to have a fairly strong computer science background in order to complete them.