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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Princeton University

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About the Course

To really understand what is special about Bitcoin, we need to understand how it works at a technical level. We’ll address the important questions about Bitcoin, such as: How does Bitcoin work? What makes Bitcoin different? How secure are your Bitcoins? How anonymous are Bitcoin users? What determines the price of Bitcoins? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? What might the future hold? After this course, you’ll know everything you need to be able to separate fact from fiction when reading claims about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. You’ll have the conceptual foundations you need to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network. And you’ll be able to integrate ideas from Bitcoin in your own projects. Course Lecturers: Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University All the features of this course are available for free. It does not offer a certificate upon completion....

Top reviews

MB

Mar 10, 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? (-:

NG

Dec 22, 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.

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By Alfred L

Oct 22, 2017

the homework is not very well structured.

By Serjey G I

Mar 9, 2017

Nice course with troublesome assignments.

By Takahiro A

Jan 14, 2017

Assignments would need to be improved...

By Robin L

Oct 12, 2017

对于了解比特币,还不错,作业内容实用性不强,前后逻辑还有同可能内容关联性不大。

By Maria N

Jun 10, 2020

Good lections, but bad assignments

By ASHUTOSH R

Aug 28, 2020

It was nice to study this.

By SONU D

May 22, 2021

where is my certificate?

By Matthew F

Jun 2, 2021

Outdated,from 2015

By SIGIT P Y M

Oct 19, 2020

no certificate

By Tammy G

Mar 15, 2022

I only did the first module but I got to the assignment for module 1 and it had nothing to do with what we learned. You definitly have to have a good amount of programming experience in order to complete the assignments and you also need a place to code. It is not built into the course. The information is outstanding. I learned a lot in the first module about how crypto works and I do have a better understanding. I just wish the assignments were more aligned.

By Jonathan G

May 16, 2018

This was a tedious and boring course! the assignments were impossible to decipher and I fail to see the end result of the point of the coins. Wouldn't it make more sense to have some form of physical currency or bartering instead?

By Frederik W A

Aug 25, 2021

They toke a very interesting topioc and made it as boring as possible. The teachers very boring and the material was boring. Old powerpoint presentation like form the early 2000.

By Harshita S

Sep 15, 2023

i wanted to get a certificate for my hard work however due to glitches by your side , i have not been even offered with the certificate on course completion

By chatal

Jul 19, 2017

Data from 2014 isn't useful in today's environment. Although fundamentals are clearly valid tpday, an update to course is mandatory

By Syrita N

Feb 23, 2018

This course was a little too advanced for me and not quite what I had in mind.

By Atul K

Dec 2, 2021

very good

By Leopold W

Dec 15, 2017

ntm

By Andrew C

Apr 17, 2023

The discordance between the lectures and the assignments is laughable, such that you cannot complete the assignments without spending 10's of hours learning and teaching yourself material not presented in the lectures.

As an analogy:

lecture 1 might be "1+1=2".

Lecture 2 might be "2*2=4".

Lecture 3 might be "3^2 = 9"

Then assignment 1 is "Please use the information you learned in lecture to write the Bitcoin protocol in Java."

By Carola F B P C

Feb 6, 2022

Hopelessly outdated. They're working with data and information from 2014. The assignment codes don't work anymore due to compiler/code updates and only lead to error messages. This course isn't even good for introductory purposes, because you're getting a completely wrong impression of the status quo. Don't waste your time.

By Greg C R

Mar 26, 2022

No instruction to get set up for programming assignments. Disappointing by Coursera and Princeton U.

By Burton W

Jan 12, 2022

This course is now so out-dated.