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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Blockchain Basics by University at Buffalo

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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

LR

Jul 29, 2019

Comprehensive and clear course that summarize the basic concepts to understand the blockchain technology. Also the resources and contents included are very valuables. I totally recommend this course.

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By Sayeed R

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Apr 19, 2020

Helps to remove one's confussion about blockchain.

By Aju g

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Mar 6, 2022

wonderfully explained, loved the additional reads

By samrat k

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Nov 21, 2021

was expecting more coding on solidarity daaps etc

By Vu N H T

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Jul 10, 2020

The final assignment's instruction can be clearer

By Asad N

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Sep 3, 2023

This is a really fantastic course for beginners.

By Amit S

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May 25, 2022

A good introduction to the overall blockchain.

By XMzz

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Mar 21, 2022

I dont know why didnt give me the certificate.

By Meet R B

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May 24, 2020

Add videos for implementation ( coding part ).

By Chu

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Aug 21, 2019

Not bad, but too much reading, too less video.

By Karthikeyan M

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Mar 27, 2019

Good material to know block chain fundamentals

By arnoud c

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Feb 5, 2020

Very clear overview of Blockchain principles!

By Francesca M

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Jul 11, 2020

Cool course, sometimes it progressed to fast

By Ayesha F

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Sep 17, 2018

very informative course regarding blockchain

By Sanyam J

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Aug 7, 2019

Can be improved by adding some more content

By Ajay C

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Apr 8, 2019

Great Introductory course on Blockchain!!!

By Harsh B

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May 10, 2021

Just tutors need to teach in more details

By Abdullah R

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Mar 22, 2020

Pretty good for a high level introduction

By Krishh K

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Jun 29, 2022

Great way to start blockchain learning.

By Ehteshamul H

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Sep 17, 2021

Very good basic learning for beginners.

By Ponugoti S

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Jun 13, 2020

its a good platform to learn blockchain

By Jason A S

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Apr 10, 2022

Could use more programming assignments

By GAGANDEEP K

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Sep 12, 2022

it was a great experiene of learning

By Vivek J

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May 14, 2021

Good for the basics.

Not too detailed.

By Rishabh G

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Aug 6, 2020

Teacher and presentation were awesome

By Fung Y M

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Sep 3, 2020

Some of the links are 404 not found.