diff --git a/monero/backends/jsonrpc.py b/monero/backends/jsonrpc.py
index 3410c30..c4a9a81 100644
--- a/monero/backends/jsonrpc.py
+++ b/monero/backends/jsonrpc.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ _log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 class JSONRPCDaemon(object):
     def __init__(self, protocol='http', host='127.0.0.1', port=18081, path='/json_rpc'):
-        self.url = '{protocol}://{host}:{port}/json_rpc'.format(
+        self.url = '{protocol}://{host}:{port}'.format(
                 protocol=protocol,
                 host=host,
                 port=port)
@@ -27,13 +27,37 @@ class JSONRPCDaemon(object):
         info = self.raw_jsonrpc_request('get_info')
         return info
 
+    def send_transaction(self, blob):
+        res = self.raw_request('/sendrawtransaction', {'tx_as_hex': blob})
+        if res['status'] == 'OK':
+            return res
+        raise exceptions.TransactionBroadcastError(
+                "{status}: {reason}".format(**res),
+                details=res)
+
+    def raw_request(self, path, data):
+        hdr = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
+        _log.debug(u"Request: {path}\nData: {data}".format(
+            path=path,
+            data=pprint.pformat(data)))
+        rsp = requests.post(self.url + path, headers=hdr, data=json.dumps(data))
+        if rsp.status_code != 200:
+            raise RPCError("Invalid HTTP status {code} for path {path}.".format(
+                code=rsp.status_code,
+                path=path))
+        result = rsp.json()
+        _ppresult = pprint.pformat(result)
+        _log.debug(u"Result:\n{result}".format(result=_ppresult))
+        return result
+
+
     def raw_jsonrpc_request(self, method, params=None):
         hdr = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
         data = {'jsonrpc': '2.0', 'id': 0, 'method': method, 'params': params or {}}
         _log.debug(u"Method: {method}\nParams:\n{params}".format(
             method=method,
             params=pprint.pformat(params)))
-        rsp = requests.post(self.url, headers=hdr, data=json.dumps(data))
+        rsp = requests.post(self.url + '/json_rpc', headers=hdr, data=json.dumps(data))
         if rsp.status_code != 200:
             raise RPCError("Invalid HTTP status {code} for method {method}.".format(
                 code=rsp.status_code,
diff --git a/monero/daemon.py b/monero/daemon.py
index 36ad4e7..81a9216 100644
--- a/monero/daemon.py
+++ b/monero/daemon.py
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@ class Daemon(object):
 
     def get_info(self):
         return self._backend.get_info()
+
+    def send_transaction(self, blob):
+        return self._backend.send_transaction(blob)
diff --git a/monero/exceptions.py b/monero/exceptions.py
index d26cdde..99be44a 100644
--- a/monero/exceptions.py
+++ b/monero/exceptions.py
@@ -24,3 +24,9 @@ class AmountIsZero(AccountException):
 
 class TransactionNotPossible(AccountException):
     pass
+
+class TransactionBroadcastError(BackendException):
+    def __init__(self, message, details=None):
+        self.details = details
+        super(TransactionBroadcastError, self).__init__(message)
+
diff --git a/utils/pushtx.py b/utils/pushtx.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f6b41ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/pushtx.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+import argparse
+import logging
+import operator
+import re
+import sys
+
+from monero.backends.jsonrpc import JSONRPCDaemon
+from monero import Daemon
+from monero import exceptions
+
+def url_data(url):
+    gs = re.compile(
+        r'^(?P<host>[^:\s]+)(?::(?P<port>[0-9]+))?$'
+        ).match(url).groupdict()
+    return dict(filter(operator.itemgetter(1), gs.items()))
+
+argsparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Push transaction to network")
+argsparser.add_argument('daemon_rpc_url', nargs='?', type=url_data, default='127.0.0.1:18081',
+    help="Daemon RPC URL [host[:port]]")
+argsparser.add_argument('-v', dest='verbosity', action='count', default=0,
+    help="Verbosity (repeat to increase; -v for INFO, -vv for DEBUG")
+argsparser.add_argument('-i', dest='tx_filenames', nargs='+', default=None,
+    help="Files with transaction data. Will read from stdin if not given.")
+args = argsparser.parse_args()
+level = logging.WARNING
+if args.verbosity == 1:
+    level = logging.INFO
+elif args.verbosity > 1:
+    level = logging.DEBUG
+logging.basicConfig(level=level, format="%(asctime)-15s %(message)s")
+if args.tx_filenames:
+    blobs = [(f, open(f, 'r').read()) for f in args.tx_filenames]
+else:
+    blobs = [('transaction', sys.stdin.read())]
+d = Daemon(JSONRPCDaemon(**args.daemon_rpc_url))
+for name, blob in blobs:
+    logging.debug("Sending {}".format(name))
+    try:
+        res = d.send_transaction(blob)
+    except exceptions.TransactionBroadcastError as e:
+        print("{} not sent, reason: {}".format(name, e.details['reason']))
+        logging.debug(e.details)
+        continue
+    if res['not_relayed']:
+        print("{} not relayed".format(name))
+    else:
+        print("{} successfully sent".format(name))
diff --git a/utils/transfer.py b/utils/transfer.py
index 5bc5191..9529d90 100644
--- a/utils/transfer.py
+++ b/utils/transfer.py
@@ -62,6 +62,6 @@ for tx in txfrs:
     if args.outdir:
         outname = os.path.join(args.outdir, tx.hash + '.tx')
         outfile = open(outname, 'wb')
-        outfile.write(tx.blob)
+        outfile.write(tx.blob.encode())
         outfile.close()
         print(u"Transaction saved to {}".format(outname))