diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f9fe4e79..5e833ab6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Unify ureq and reqwest esplora backends to have the same configuration parameters. This means reqwest now has a timeout parameter and ureq has a concurrency parameter.
 - Fixed esplora fee estimation.
 - Fixed generating WIF in the correct network format.
+- Disable `reqwest` default features.
+- Added `reqwest-default-tls` feature: Use this to restore the TLS defaults of reqwest if you don't want to add a dependency to it in your own manifest.
 
 ## [v0.14.0] - [v0.13.0]
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f97f3f13..ef7fc9b3 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ sled = { version = "0.34", optional = true }
 electrum-client = { version = "0.8", optional = true }
 rusqlite = { version = "0.25.3", optional = true }
 ahash = { version = "=0.7.4", optional = true }
-reqwest = { version = "0.11", optional = true, features = ["json"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.11", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["json"] }
 ureq = { version = "~2.2.0", features = ["json"], optional = true }
 futures = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
 async-trait = { version = "0.1", optional = true }
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ use-esplora-ureq = ["esplora", "ureq", "ureq/socks"]
 # Typical configurations will not need to use `esplora` feature directly.
 esplora = []
 
+# Use below feature with `use-esplora-reqwest` to enable reqwest default TLS support
+reqwest-default-tls = ["reqwest/default-tls"]
 
 # Debug/Test features
 test-blockchains = ["bitcoincore-rpc", "electrum-client"]