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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Princeton University

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    About the Course

    To really understand what is special about Bitcoin, we need to understand how it works at a technical level. We’ll address the important
    questions about Bitcoin, such as: How does Bitcoin work? What makes Bitcoin different? How secure are your Bitcoins? How anonymous are
    Bitcoin users? What determines the price of Bitcoins? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? What might the future hold? After this course, you’ll
    know everything you need to be able to separate fact from fiction when reading claims about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. You’ll have
    the conceptual foundations you need to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network. And you’ll be able t...
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    MB

    Mar 10, 2018

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    Great course, a very broad and in-depth overview of concepts surrounding cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin in particular. Would be great to have an update of course; perhaps once the ICO craze is over? (-:

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    Jan 14, 2017

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    I find this course prepared very well. There are many perspectives and this course does not concentrate on the technology only. I find this course very helpful. The level is more then just beginner.

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    By Dimitris T

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    Jun 4, 2017

    Learned a lot about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Struggled with the Java exercises; I am not a programmer. Struggled with crafting local test harnesses for the code and resolving Java exceptions.

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    Feb 4, 2018

    The coding exercise required a bit of time to fully comprehend. Other than that, it was pretty helpful for a beginner to get into the world of Crypocurrency and the foundation theory of Bitcoin.

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    Jul 23, 2021

    Excellent course covering the fundamentals of crypto currencies. Only improvement I'd suggest is if it could be updated with some of the more recent developments over the past several years.

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    By Kosol N

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    Sep 1, 2017

    Interesting course. Good points: material is interesting and comprehensive, lecturers are knowledgeable. Not so good points: assignment specifications and test code is poor (or non-existent).

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    By praful b

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    Mar 13, 2017

    Good overview of crypto currency. The programming assignments are interesting (can help if there is some support on the forum). overall good program for someone wanting to learn blockchain

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    By Dimitri P

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    Feb 19, 2017

    The theory part is quite good: you get a rather strong in-detail understanding of the technology behind Bitcoin. The Java programming assignments, however, are an organizational disaster.

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    Feb 14, 2017

    There is quite a bit of material within this course. Having the supplementary book and Princeton online material helped substantially especially when debugging the assignments.

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    By Guillermo C

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    Feb 2, 2020

    I feel this course to be very interesting. However, the programming tasks can be a little bit difficult to understand, thanks to the debate forums that was much easier. Thanks

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    By Animesh S

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    Feb 10, 2017

    Good course but I found it a little difficult to follow. The prof. speaks very fast. It becomes a little uneasy to follow the slides and I need to pause the video frequently.

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    By Akshit A

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    Dec 14, 2017

    Would have been much better if more coding problems & assignments were there in Python similar to Udacity.

    Current course is more of theory based rather than practical.

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    By Albert G

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    May 26, 2017

    Great course the amount of info i learnt from this as well as the cryptocurrency talks @thebandwidthbarn makes this worth while, note you need some java dev skills

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    By Alberto M V

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    Mar 11, 2018

    Assignment code is a little unclear, and could be better documented, providing unit tests to the students could also help improve the quality of the submissions

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    By Max W

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    Dec 24, 2017

    Somewhat dated material, and some decidedly poorly written assignments. However, all in all, a very interesting class with some great, well taught fundamentals.

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    By David V

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    Apr 29, 2019

    Great content but if you don't know how to code it's very difficult given direction given on the assignments. Need to have some computer science background.

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    By Robert R

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    Apr 18, 2018

    Very good introduction into blockchain technology. Unfortunately no certificate and completion requires Java programming skills. Also a bit outdated (2018).

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    By Prakash Y

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    Jul 6, 2017

    good !!! really enjoyed the programming bits. Also Loved the way crypto-currency economy is introduced, legality and technicality coverage is brilliant !!

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    By Mihai R

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    Apr 9, 2018

    The course was good. If you want to start with the bitcoin & Co this is one course to start with.

    I wish that the code exercises will be more elaborated.

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    By Maxime

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    Jun 1, 2018

    A very good introduction to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

    Somes parts looked out of date, or at least would need to be update ! Thank you for all that !

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    By Manuel

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    Apr 11, 2018

    Lessons 1- 8interesting and well organised, exercises are hard to nail and require commitment.

    Latest part very rushed and superficial, irrelevant

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    By Michal P

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    Jan 24, 2017

    Great course. Very well explained topics. The only criticism would be on lack of tests in coding tasks, and only one language supported. (Java)

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    By Andrew C

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    Jan 2, 2017

    The content and videos are good, but the programming assignments could really use some work to make them easier to understand and implement.

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    By BINGQING L

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    Feb 24, 2017

    Overall it is a great course. Just think that the assignment could have been break into many smaller sections with a slower learning curve.

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    By Rodrigo L

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    Aug 3, 2020

    it was too difficult to finish the programming part of the course. Maybe the course could give some mo detailed example to the students.

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    By Pritam B

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    Jun 6, 2020

    According to the pre-requisites, the course said we don't need any coding background, but the assignments were very much code-oriented

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    By Wei J T

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    Sep 16, 2021

    Overall a very good introductory course. But the programming assignments are unnecessarily hard and the contents are obsolete today.

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