I'm fairly confident that you're wrong about "nobody"... but you'll have to find the examples yourself. Yes, it requires extra settings in bitcoin.conf: to ena

I'm fairly confident that you're wrong about "nobody"... but you'll have to find the examples yourself. Yes, it requires extra settings in bitcoin.conf: to enable RPC, accept connections from non-local addresses, and use SSL. But it's only 5 lines if the host is not otherwise firewalled from the net: server=1 rpcuser=reckless rpcpassword=passw0rd rpcallowip=* rpcssl=1 (Actually, I'm not sure if rpcuser and rpcpassword absolutely must be set...)