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28. HTTP Clients and JSON-RPC

Calling blockchain nodes from Go.

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Reuse a configured http.Client with timeouts rather than the default. Ethereum JSON-RPC calls post a method, params, id envelope; results arrive as hex strings that need decoding into big.Int. Batch requests and set sensible retry and backoff policy.

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