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i've been searching for hours now. Also on StackExchange here. Are there any public nodes that i can connect to using jsonrpc? I want to lookup stuff (im not into generating priv keys or anything) but I dont want to use any api. So are there any public nodes that I can connect to?

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  • Not enough rep to comment that this has been asked before: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/39358/publicly-available-json-rpc-node-for-bitcoin-cli-connection – pox May 01 '21 at 16:28
  • Does this answer your question? [publicly available json-rpc node for bitcoin-cli connection](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/39358/publicly-available-json-rpc-node-for-bitcoin-cli-connection) – pox May 01 '21 at 16:28
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    Well this server/node he linked doesn't exist anymore – UnknownHex64 May 01 '21 at 16:49

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Running public nodes for others to consume the JSONRPC API is not something that is widespread in the Bitcoin community. For a number of reasons, but the main one is probably that it's very low effort to run your own (you can get away with 10G of disk space and a few days of bootstrap time on a mid-range laptop).

That said, this website (hosted by @janoside) exposes some RPC commands publicly.

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