A few weeks ago, I started a review on the list of public RPC nodes. The review is now complete, and this post contains the latest list of active pubic RCP nodes.

Active Public RPC Nodes:

Node	Operator
api.steemit.com	Hive account@steemit
api.steem.house	Hive account@gtg
gtg.steem.house:8090	Hive account@gtg
appbasetest.timcliff.com	Hive account@timcliff
rpc.steemviz.com	Hive account@ausbitbank
steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	Hive account@followbtcnews
steemd.privex.io	Hive account@privex
rpc.usesteem.com	Hive account@themarkymark
anyx.io	Hive account@anyx
hive.anyx.io	Hive account@anyx

There are several locations where the list of active RPC nodes are maintained:
(1) Steem.center (community maintained)
(2) Full API Node Update posts (Hive account@holger80)
(3) geo.steem.pl (Hive account@jamzed)
(4) steemistry.com (Hive account@followbtcnews)
(5) Steem Developer Portal (Hive account@steemit)

I have updated the list that is shown in Steem.center (#1). I have also submitted a pull request to update the Steem Developer Portal (#5). I will be providing this list to Hive account@holger80, Hive account@jamzed, and Hive account@followbtcnews shortly, so they can update their lists (#3, #4, and #5).

Several users have expressed desire to have more information about each of the nodes. Some suggestions include: current blockchain version, what plugins are enabled, whether a proxy is used, hivemind support. If anyone is looking for a fun project, it seems like there is decent demand for this ;)