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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

SS

Jul 27, 2018

I find this course helpful to absolute beginner and for one who wants to grasp the basic concepts of Blockchain . The tutor tried to explain most part with simplicity and good and sufficient details.

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By Reza H

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Jan 1, 2022

Contents of the course were really helpful. Teacher of the course explained all required subjects truly and in detail.

By Aaroha S

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Aug 5, 2021

Well taught course. Do not skip the reading sections. Those reading part kept me going and fascinated at every point.

By sandesh k

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Dec 24, 2021

Got to learn the fundamentals of blockchain. This course encouraged me to learn and understand blockchain till deep.

By Rahmat I H

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Jul 6, 2020

the materials is well delivered and the practitioner's perspective is very helpful to get an idea from industry side

By Prakash C S

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May 13, 2020

This is very very good for me and all the students and teachers like me thank you so much all the team of Coursera !

By Anand

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Nov 16, 2018

Very informative for a beginner, Thank You @Bina and the University at Buffalo team for offering this on Coursera

By Lagadic A

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Oct 30, 2019

Thanks !

The videos are clear, the sites given to explore are really useful to make sure we understood the concepts.

By Sameer N

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Jun 22, 2019

Gives good information on Blockchain and is a starting point for people who want to start their blockchain journey.

By Rabih J

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Mar 24, 2022

I enjoyed the course and learned a lot from it. The content is well organised and focused on practical situations.

By Aman K G

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Aug 22, 2020

This is an introductory course to Blockchain. You will learn the basics of the Blockchain of Bitcoin and Ethereum.

By Gregory K

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Sep 14, 2019

Very good introduction to blockchain technology. Perfect for the person with basic computer operations knowledge.

By Ubaid U R

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May 13, 2023

Complete, and Precise. To-the-point information. The material is sufficient to have a basic grip over blockchain.

By Bruce S G

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Sep 30, 2022

Great intro to Ethereum. Well organized, explained, and comes with an extensive reading list of resource sites.

By Feras A

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Dec 1, 2021

Good introductory course, quizzes and final assignment were well thought through (based on the course material).

By Muthukumaran A

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May 3, 2020

Condensed education content by Professor and team. Also liked the additional resources to read after each lesson.

By Arun K D

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Jul 31, 2018

Good one. Gives you an detailed overview. Trainer was good with the content, however, the videos are not so good.

By Rudransh S T

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Mar 27, 2023

This course was very helpful as I discovered new things that I didn't know about before getting into this course

By Farhan

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Oct 12, 2022

Informative course especially the additional material attached with each lecture gives you more grasp on topic.

By Syed H A N

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Oct 9, 2022

I am experienced blockchain product manager and found all the content of this course abtly good for beginners.

By Martín M

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Dec 10, 2021

I loved the course, it offers a good basic introduction to the Blockhain world, its uses, protocols, processes.

By Rijeen A M

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Jun 19, 2020

Loved the way the course instructor simplified complex topic in a simple fashion (short video sessions/lessons)

By Ebin M

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May 22, 2020

It is very helpful for beginners and the lectures was very interesting. Thank you Bina madame for the lectures.

By 35_Ramakrishna K

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Mar 6, 2020

I had a good experience in this course. There was self check quiz which made me evaluate myself and work on it.

By Balaji C

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Aug 24, 2019

So nice overall course experience especially program assignment its like a spoon feed of block chain beginners.

By SANKARA M

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Feb 24, 2019

Teaching such complex subject at a lesser period of time requires great skillset.

I Thank Ms.Bina for the course