<p>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).</p>
<p>That said, <a href="https://bitcoinexplorer.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this website</a> (hosted by @janoside) exposes some RPC commands publicly.</p>

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<p>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?</p>

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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
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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)
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Well this server/node he linked doesn't exist anymore
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<bitcoin-core><json-rpc><full-node><nodes>
Public Bitcoin Nodes? [No API]
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# Public Bitcoin Nodes? [No API]

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-05-01)

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?

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, json-rpc, full-node, nodes

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: 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  
> **username_1**: 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)  
> **username_0**: Well this server/node he linked doesn't exist anymore  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2021-05-06. Score: 2

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](https://bitcoinexplorer.org/) (hosted by @janoside) exposes some RPC commands publicly.


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