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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

RH

May 5, 2019

The course is well designed to give you an overview of Blockchain and the basic concepts. What is Smart Contract and other various terminologies and how they play a role in the blockchain. Thanks

MK

Mar 16, 2019

Very nicely arranged course and very informative. Learned a lot in no time. Only hurdle is The Ethereum Virtual machine takes hell lot of time in the Miner step. rest all fine. thanks a lot.

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By D B

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Feb 15, 2021

Good for Blockchain beginners

By Kostikov P

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Nov 2, 2020

Отличный курс для начинающих!

By Yasharth Y

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Oct 17, 2020

It was really great to learn!

By PODUGU S C

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Sep 18, 2020

Greate Learning Tool Coursera

By Mrs.M.Amal M C T

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Sep 10, 2020

GOOD COURSE, GOOD LECTURER...

By Tamal M

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Aug 10, 2020

Great Resource for a beginner

By Peter J

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Oct 16, 2019

Good overview of btc and eth.

By Muhammad M

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Jun 7, 2019

very good learning experience

By Yenni R

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May 18, 2019

Best Course ever I have done.

By Tanisha

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Mar 20, 2019

Awesome assignment and course

By Marcelo B

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Nov 26, 2022

Muito satisfeito com o curso

By Anand R

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Apr 29, 2022

learn a lot from this course

By Ferney V

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Feb 26, 2022

Very nice and well explained

By Richard H

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Jan 1, 2022

It was a great introduction!

By Vikas r

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Aug 29, 2019

It was an excellent Course!!

By Lo V

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Apr 25, 2019

The course really helped me.

By David M S

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Oct 18, 2018

Perfect course for beginners

By Paul

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Jun 28, 2018

`Great succinct introduction

By Ahmed A

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Jun 25, 2018

great course ,update content

By Đức T K

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Jan 28, 2022

Super useful for a beginner

By Rajika C

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Jan 20, 2022

Best for Blockchain Basics!

By Esther Y

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Jun 27, 2021

Thanks for the great course

By Omar O

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Sep 13, 2020

Now i know why its awarded.

By Nareshkumar S

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Aug 21, 2020

Superb introductory course.

By SAURABH K M

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Jul 24, 2020

excellent course for basics