diff --git a/contrib/zmq/zmq_sub27.py b/contrib/zmq/zmq_sub27.py
deleted file mode 100755
--- a/contrib/zmq/zmq_sub27.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python2
-# Copyright (c) 2014-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
-# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
-# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
-
-import binascii
-import zmq
-import struct
-
-port = 28332
-
-zmqContext = zmq.Context()
-zmqSubSocket = zmqContext.socket(zmq.SUB)
-zmqSubSocket.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "hashblock")
-zmqSubSocket.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "hashtx")
-zmqSubSocket.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "rawblock")
-zmqSubSocket.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "rawtx")
-zmqSubSocket.connect("tcp://127.0.0.1:{}".format(port))
-
-try:
-    while True:
-        msg = zmqSubSocket.recv_multipart()
-        topic = str(msg[0])
-        body = msg[1]
-        sequence = "Unknown"
-        if len(msg[-1]) == 4:
-            msgSequence = struct.unpack('<I', msg[-1])[-1]
-            sequence = str(msgSequence)
-        if topic == "hashblock":
-            print '- HASH BLOCK (' + sequence + ') -'
-            print binascii.hexlify(body)
-        elif topic == "hashtx":
-            print '- HASH TX  (' + sequence + ') -'
-            print binascii.hexlify(body)
-        elif topic == "rawblock":
-            print '- RAW BLOCK HEADER (' + sequence + ') -'
-            print binascii.hexlify(body[:80])
-        elif topic == "rawtx":
-            print '- RAW TX (' + sequence + ') -'
-            print binascii.hexlify(body)
-
-except KeyboardInterrupt:
-    zmqContext.destroy()