diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index 02abd877d..1bdb359d1 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -108,7 +108,8 @@ task:
     - apt-get update
     - apt-get -y install libsecp256k1-0 curl jq bc
     - pip3 install .[tests]
-    - pip3 install electrumx
+    #- pip3 install e-x # Broken because of https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx/issues/117 , use older version for now.
+    - pip3 install electrumx==1.15.0
     - "BITCOIND_VERSION=$(curl https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/ | grep -E -i --only-matching 'Latest version: [0-9\\.]+' | grep -E --only-matching '[0-9\\.]+')"
     - BITCOIND_FILENAME=bitcoin-$BITCOIND_VERSION-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
     - BITCOIND_PATH=/tmp/bitcoind/$BITCOIND_FILENAME