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Title: What's the difference between 8332 and 8333 ports on bitcoind? Post by: Uniex on December 18, 2017, 08:57:49 PM According to docs:
-rpcport=<port> Listen for JSON-RPC connections on <port> (default: 8332 or testnet: 18332) -port=<port> Listen for connections on <port> (default: 8333 or testnet: 18333) So what's the difference ? Title: Re: What's the difference between 8332 and 8333 ports on bitcoind? Post by: legend018 on December 18, 2017, 09:10:16 PM I read that 8333 is the peer-to-peer port for the Bitcoin network, while 8332 is the JSON/RPC port
Also found the following definition: RPC needs a network transfer protocol (like TCP/IP) to do its job, but RPC is a higher-level protocol and fulfills a different purpose than merely sending unstructured data from one computer to another. |