diff --git a/jsonapi.go b/jsonapi.go
index d56c531c..e64bd7f6 100644
--- a/jsonapi.go
+++ b/jsonapi.go
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ func ReadResultCmd(cmd string, message []byte) (Reply, error) {
 		if err == nil {
 			result.Result = res
 		}
-	case "getaddressesbyaccount", "getrawmempool":
+	case "getaddressesbyaccount":
 		var res []string
 		err = json.Unmarshal(objmap["result"], &res)
 		if err == nil {
diff --git a/jsonapi_test.go b/jsonapi_test.go
index dc35de58..319b78e2 100644
--- a/jsonapi_test.go
+++ b/jsonapi_test.go
@@ -346,8 +346,6 @@ var resulttests = []struct {
 	{"getaddressesbyaccount", []byte(`{"error":null,"id":1,"result":["test"]}`), false, true},
 	{"getmininginfo", []byte(`{"error":null,"id":1,"result":[{"a":"b"}]}`), false, false},
 	{"getmininginfo", []byte(`{"error":null,"id":1,"result":{"generate":true}}`), false, true},
-	{"getrawmempool", []byte(`{"error":null,"id":1,"result":[{"a":"b"}]}`), false, false},
-	{"getrawmempool", []byte(`{"error":null,"id":1,"result":["test"]}`), false, true},
 	{"validateaddress", []byte(`{"error":null,"id":1,"result":{"isvalid":false}}`), false, true},
 	{"validateaddress", []byte(`{"error":null,"id":1,"result":{false}}`), false, false},
 	{"signrawtransaction", []byte(`{"error":null,"id":1,"result":{"hex":"something","complete":false}}`), false, true},
diff --git a/jsoncmd.go b/jsoncmd.go
index b0968f28..2dd3cf0f 100644
--- a/jsoncmd.go
+++ b/jsoncmd.go
@@ -2831,15 +2831,24 @@ func (cmd *GetRawChangeAddressCmd) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
 // unmarshaling of getrawmempool JSON RPC commands.
 type GetRawMempoolCmd struct {
 	id interface{}
+	Verbose bool
 }
 
 // Enforce that GetRawMempoolCmd satisifies the Cmd interface.
 var _ Cmd = &GetRawMempoolCmd{}
 
 // NewGetRawMempoolCmd creates a new GetRawMempoolCmd.
-func NewGetRawMempoolCmd(id interface{}) (*GetRawMempoolCmd, error) {
+func NewGetRawMempoolCmd(id interface{}, optArgs ...bool) (*GetRawMempoolCmd, error) {
+	verbose := false
+	if len(optArgs) > 0 {
+		if len(optArgs) > 1 {
+			return nil, ErrTooManyOptArgs
+		}
+		verbose = optArgs[0]
+	}
 	return &GetRawMempoolCmd{
 		id: id,
+		Verbose: verbose,
 	}, nil
 }
 
@@ -2855,14 +2864,18 @@ func (cmd *GetRawMempoolCmd) Method() string {
 
 // MarshalJSON returns the JSON encoding of cmd.  Part of the Cmd interface.
 func (cmd *GetRawMempoolCmd) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
-
-	// Fill and marshal a RawCmd.
-	return json.Marshal(RawCmd{
+	raw := RawCmd{
 		Jsonrpc: "1.0",
 		Method:  "getrawmempool",
 		Id:      cmd.id,
 		Params:  []interface{}{},
-	})
+	}
+
+	if cmd.Verbose {
+		raw.Params = append(raw.Params, cmd.Verbose)
+	}
+
+	return json.Marshal(raw)
 }
 
 // UnmarshalJSON unmarshals the JSON encoding of cmd into cmd.  Part of
@@ -2874,11 +2887,21 @@ func (cmd *GetRawMempoolCmd) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	if len(r.Params) != 0 {
+	if len(r.Params) > 1 {
 		return ErrWrongNumberOfParams
 	}
 
-	newCmd, err := NewGetRawMempoolCmd(r.Id)
+	optArgs := make([]bool, 0, 1)
+	if len(r.Params)  == 1 {
+		verbose, ok := r.Params[0].(bool)
+		if !ok {
+			return errors.New("first optional parameter verbose must be a bool")
+		}
+
+		optArgs = append(optArgs, verbose)
+	}
+
+	newCmd, err := NewGetRawMempoolCmd(r.Id, optArgs...)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
diff --git a/jsoncmd_test.go b/jsoncmd_test.go
index a3410714..2c20e4b7 100644
--- a/jsoncmd_test.go
+++ b/jsoncmd_test.go
@@ -535,6 +535,25 @@ var jsoncmdtests = []struct {
 			id: float64(1),
 		},
 	},
+	{
+		name: "basic getrawmempool noverbose",
+		f: func() (Cmd, error) {
+			return NewGetRawMempoolCmd(float64(1), false)
+		},
+		result: &GetRawMempoolCmd{
+			id: float64(1),
+		},
+	},
+	{
+		name: "basic getrawmempool verbose",
+		f: func() (Cmd, error) {
+			return NewGetRawMempoolCmd(float64(1), true)
+		},
+		result: &GetRawMempoolCmd{
+			id: float64(1),
+			Verbose: true,
+		},
+	},
 	{
 		name: "basic getrawtransaction",
 		f: func() (Cmd, error) {