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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 compon...
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    Top reviews

    TT

    Nov 18, 2018

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    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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    Feb 4, 2022

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    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.

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    By Dr. M S

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    May 17, 2020

    It was good learning about Blockchain. How technology works and how we can check the transaction in blockchain.

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    May 8, 2021

    Does a great job of explaining the basics of cryptocurrencies, and the underlying technology - the blockchain.

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    By Gaurab M

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    Jun 13, 2020

    The course was great. The resources are just awesome. Kindly read all the articles and journals in the course.

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    Jan 16, 2021

    Y it was great to learn learn about this awesome technology and its underlying Technology. Thanks Coursera.

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    By Wenlong W

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    May 19, 2019

    Quite useful reading links provided in the reading sections. The lecture videos are not really informative.

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    By Pushpanjali K

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    Jul 6, 2018

    Good course to start with on Blockchain. The project is cool through it takes multiple attempts to complete

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    By Qifei Z

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    Jun 12, 2020

    Too many reading materials attached. Would be good if the professor and walk through some of the contents.

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    By Arvind K S

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    Oct 14, 2019

    The content was good for a jumpstart to the technology but the project work could have been more

    engaging.

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    By Deshagette

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    Jan 27, 2019

    Ce cours Blockchain Basic m'a vraiment permis de découvrir cette nouvelle approche de gestion de données.

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    By Wim S

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    Nov 27, 2018

    There are some typo's in the text, one is anoying since is indicates ins't where I think it should be is.

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    By Zulfi H

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    Mar 6, 2022

    Great Course. Learnt a lot. The final hands-on assignment cements the course contents. Must take course.

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    By DOMINGO B

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    Aug 30, 2020

    It covers the basics of blockchain, giving the tools to begin understanding and working with blockchain

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    By SIVADANAM Y L

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    Jun 10, 2020

    very interesting and helpful for beginners. of course it is a basic course but got lots of stuff thanks

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    By Sampad S

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    Apr 17, 2021

    The course was fantastic. But the project at the end was a bit hassle as instructions were not proper.

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    By BHASKAR M

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    Sep 24, 2018

    The Instructions in the Project was not very clear. It took me more than 4 hrs to complete this task.

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    By Gary C

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    Sep 19, 2018

    Good information, however getting the project to run was a little challenging on my Windows machine.

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    By Sotirios K

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    Aug 23, 2022

    Well structured course for a complex subject matter

    Resources could be better, some links are broken

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    By Sudhir K

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    Jul 28, 2019

    Little more detail in terms of how "difficulty" is created and used by miners could have helped.

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    By Iván M

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    Dec 14, 2023

    tiene datos básicos para empezar. A mejorar: podría estar mejor explicado, no está actualizado

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    By Aditya J

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    Jun 30, 2021

    This course was very much informative and helped me understand blockchains to a greater extent

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    By SEEMANT V

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    Mar 16, 2021

    contents that are given for reading purpose also need to be explained thoroughly in the videos

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    By TUSHAR B

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    Jun 13, 2020

    this course gave a very good understanding of how cryptocurrency(Bitcoin and Etherium) works.

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    By Cristian M S

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    Apr 25, 2020

    Is a very goood course, has a balance between videos/reading and test. Some links are broken.

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    By Roshan D

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    Jun 22, 2021

    Wonderful teaching by the lecturer. It has helped me gain better understanding on Blockchain

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    By Ronak U

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    Oct 16, 2020

    Nice Course but very less practical knowledge (due to requirement of high computation power)

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