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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

SJ

Feb 5, 2022

Really l​earned a lot about the fundamentals of blockchain, being a software engineer looking into blockchain. It just got me up to speed with the underlying workflow of blockchain and more. loved it.

TT

Nov 19, 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

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By Nitish K

May 11, 2020

Increase in video length and a little less reading material may help in making this course more helpful

By Himanshu K

Oct 26, 2022

More video lectures should be there for a better understanding as we have to read a lot by ourselves.

By Umang T

May 22, 2021

The lectures could be lengthier. The course seems to be rushed. The programming assignment was good.

By Concierge S

Mar 5, 2020

The miner part of the project is flawed. It crashes. Also the project instructions are incomplete.

By Pallavi N

Dec 29, 2021

More than half of the resource files are not existing . Please review those resource files again

By Abhishek B

Jun 14, 2020

the faculty seemed to read from a screen and cannot make us understand complex english words..

By Vallabh C

Jan 7, 2019

more practical approach would have been better and programming assignment was not satisfactory

By Pulkit S

Mar 7, 2023

While the course is dense and exhaustive, it rushes through concepts leaving out quite a bit

By Miguel Á S C

Mar 19, 2022

Final Project is a pain; Virtual Machine used is not up to the specs required for the task.

By Yasaman R

Jun 24, 2020

It's a good course for beginners but the assignments and quizzes can be harder and longer.

By Bhavneet S

Jul 1, 2020

The reading material provided is pretty good, but video lectures could have been better.

By Saleh M A

Sep 10, 2020

OVA file creates problems which make my submission delayed. This should be resolved.

By Vishwajeet K

Jul 27, 2020

A nice course where you can learn about the basic knowledge of Blockchain Technology

By Ujjwal G

Jul 14, 2019

Covers only the basics, assignments are not very good but pretty decent for a start.

By Alexey K

Sep 15, 2018

Narrative in the lectures a little, most of the material is devoted to self-study.

By Amit K

Jul 13, 2020

Some of the links were not working in week 1 and week 2 optional reading material

By BALAM K

Aug 27, 2020

I HAD A GOOD KNOWLEGDE OF BASICS OF BLOCK CHAIN REGARDING BASICS BY THIS COURSE

By Rohit M

Jan 11, 2021

Good course for beginner concepts, but a lot of links are old and not working

By Sarthik G

Aug 19, 2019

Not much explained! Literally used youtube or Edx for most of the topics

By Chris M

May 30, 2019

Good information but needs more context around assignments and readings.

By Santiago M O G

May 9, 2023

Muy buenas eplicaciones sin embargo muchas lecturas estan desfasadas

By Sana

Aug 12, 2020

many problems with last assignment . just because of computing power

By avichal s

Apr 28, 2020

You have to be very patience while submitting the final assignment.

By Joyce Z

Mar 2, 2020

This course really didn't go in to the depth that I am expecting.

By VIKIN D

Jun 4, 2021

Some of the terms could have been explained better and in detail