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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 bhagath v

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Jun 9, 2021

Good one start with

By Rittwika S D

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Feb 6, 2021

Teacher is awesome.

By Ronan D m

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Jul 31, 2020

Great introduction!

By Naman T

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Jul 21, 2020

exceptional course.

By CHRISTOPHER G O M

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Jul 3, 2020

Excelente contenido

By Hander B

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Dec 16, 2019

Excellent course!!!

By Nagavardhan R

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Mar 27, 2019

Very informative...

By Mohit C

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Mar 5, 2019

Great explaination.

By Paulo C

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Feb 5, 2022

Excellent content!

By SASWIN V

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Jan 17, 2022

EXCELLENT TEACHING

By MOHAMMED M I

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Aug 23, 2021

awesome experience

By Thanat S

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Jan 6, 2021

easy to understand

By Arnab R

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Dec 2, 2020

Very well designed

By Amith K S

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Jul 30, 2020

really wonderful..

By Mr. M A B M

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Jul 20, 2020

Good for beginners

By Augustine S

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May 31, 2020

very useful course

By Piyush B

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May 19, 2020

Really nice course

By Akash B

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Apr 18, 2020

Good for beginners

By ankan d

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Oct 8, 2018

Very nice course!!

By Vijay S

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Sep 9, 2018

Very Informative!!

By Arun A

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Aug 8, 2018

Decent 101 for BC.

By Andrea B

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Aug 1, 2018

Excellent MOC !!!!

By Gouri S S

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Jul 28, 2018

Excellent Content.

By Jyotirmai B

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Jul 10, 2018

outstanding course

By Marc A

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Jun 14, 2018

Excellent content.