# Rpc alternative

**URL:** <https://forums.counterparty.io/t/rpc-alternative/98>\
**Category:** Counterparty\
**Created:** [February 10, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/rpc-alternative/98 "2014-02-10T01:02:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![blackbeard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/blackbeard/32/6_2.png) [@blackbeard](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/blackbeard)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/rpc-alternative/98/1 "2014-02-10T01:02:21Z")

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Is there a way to run counterpartyd with obelisk or an electrum server? (Something that doesn’t require me to run bitcoind and maintain the huge blockchain file)

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**Author:** ![romerun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ea924/32.png) [@romerun](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/romerun)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/rpc-alternative/98/2 "2014-02-10T05:20:06Z")

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The lightweight wallet can be done in the same approach as mastercoin – we would have a bunch of open source blockscan webs providing api to access xcp transactions and calculate the sentiment from all sources

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**Author:** ![blackbeard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/blackbeard/32/6_2.png) [@blackbeard](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/blackbeard)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/rpc-alternative/98/3 "2014-02-10T16:03:08Z")

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I would just use blockchain.info but their json-rpc api isn’t returning valid json ☹