diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3657b3d..82da0b1 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ The constructor can take the following attributes:
   - `user`: JSON-RPC username (**required**)
   - `pass`: JSON-RPC password (**required**)
 - `peer`: P2P settings
-  - `host`: Peer IP to connect to (**optional.** default: 127.0.0.1)
+  - `host`: Peer IP to connect to (**optional.** default: same as `rpc.host`)
 - `chain`: Chain definition (optional. strongly recommended)
   - `prune`: automatically prune the oldest `.tx` file inside the `chain` folder when the number of files exceeds `prune`.
   - `path`: the path to store the chain files in
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index bf989d9..782fdfe 100755
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class Bitwork {
 
     // PEER
     let m = new Messages({ Block: bsv.Block, BlockHeader: bsv.BlockHeader, Transaction: bsv.Transaction, MerkleBlock: bsv.MerkleBlock })
-    let g = Object.assign({ host: "127.0.0.1", messages: m }, (gene && gene.peer ? gene.peer : {}))
+    let g = Object.assign({ host: rpcconfig.host, messages: m }, (gene && gene.peer ? gene.peer : {}))
     this.peer = new Peer(g)
     this.peer.on("disconnect", function() { console.log("disconnected") })
     this.peer.on("error", function(e) { console.log("Err", e) })