diff --git a/cron/blockstuff.php b/cron/blockstuff.php
deleted file mode 100644
index a2b9f38..0000000
--- a/cron/blockstuff.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,137 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-define('TMP', '/tmp/');
-define('DS', '/');
-
-class BlockSyncThread extends \Thread {
-    private $_startHeight;
-    private $_endHeight;
-    private $_maxHeight;
-
-    public function __construct($startBlock, $endBlock, $maxHeight) {
-        $this->_startHeight = $startBlock;
-        $this->_endHeight = $endBlock;
-        $this->_maxHeight = $maxHeight;
-    }
-
-    public function run() {
-        $conn = new \PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=lbry", 'lbry-admin', '46D861aX#!yQ');
-        $conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
-        $data_error = false;
-        $conn->beginTransaction();
-
-        // TODO: Batch block synchronisation from memory to DB
-
-        for ($curr_height = $this->_startHeight; $curr_height <= $this->_endHeight; $curr_height++) {
-            $idx_str = str_pad($curr_height, strlen($this->_maxHeight), '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
-
-            // get the block hash
-            $req = ['method' => 'getblockhash', 'params' => [$curr_height]];
-            $response = BlockStuff::curl_json_post(BlockStuff::rpcurl, json_encode($req));
-            $json = json_decode($response);
-            $curr_block_hash = $json->result;
-
-            $req = ['method' => 'getblock', 'params' => [$curr_block_hash]];
-            $response = BlockStuff::curl_json_post(BlockStuff::rpcurl, json_encode($req));
-            $json = json_decode($response);
-            $curr_block = $json->result;
-
-            $stmt = $conn->prepare('UPDATE Blocks SET Confirmations = ? WHERE Height = ?');
-            try {
-                $stmt->execute([$curr_block->confirmations, $curr_height]);
-                echo "[$idx_str/$this->_maxHeight] Updated block height: $curr_height with confirmations $curr_block->confirmations.\n";
-            } catch (Exception $e) {
-                $data_error = true;
-            }
-        }
-
-        if ($data_error) {
-            echo "Rolling back changes.\n";
-            $conn->rollBack();
-            return;
-        }
-
-        echo "Committing data.\n";
-        $conn->commit();
-    }
-}
-
-class BlockStuff {
-    const rpcurl = 'http://lrpc:lrpc@127.0.0.1:9245';
-    public static function blocksync() {
-        self::lock('blocksync');
-
-        $conn = new \PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=lbry", 'lbry-admin', '46D861aX#!yQ');
-
-        $stmt = $conn->prepare('SELECT Height FROM Blocks ORDER BY Height DESC LIMIT 1');
-        $stmt->execute([]);
-        $max_block = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);
-        if ($max_block) {
-            $chunk_limit = 2;
-            $curr_height = 0;
-            $chunks = floor($max_block->Height / $chunk_limit);
-            $threads = [];
-            for ($i = 0; $i < $chunk_limit; $i++) {
-                $start = $curr_height;
-                $end = ($i == ($chunk_limit - 1)) ? $max_block->Height : $start + $chunks;
-                $curr_height += $chunks + 1;
-                $thread = new BlockSyncThread($start, $end, $max_block->Height);
-                $threads[] = $thread;
-
-                $thread->start();
-            }
-
-            for ($i = 0; $i < count($threads); $i++) {
-                $threads[$i]->join();
-            }
-        }
-
-        self::unlock('blocksync');
-    }
-
-    public static function curl_json_post($url, $data, $headers = []) {
-        $ch = curl_init();
-        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
-        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
-        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
-        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
-        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
-
-        $response = curl_exec($ch);
-        //Log::debug('Request execution completed.');
-        if ($response === false) {
-            $error = curl_error($ch);
-            $errno = curl_errno($ch);
-            curl_close($ch);
-
-            throw new \Exception(sprintf('The request failed: %s', $error), $errno);
-        } else {
-            curl_close($ch);
-        }
-
-        // Close any open file handle
-        return $response;
-    }
-
-    public static function lock($process_name) {
-        if (!is_dir(TMP . 'lock')) {
-            mkdir(TMP . 'lock');
-        }
-        $lock_file = TMP . 'lock' . DS . $process_name;
-        if (file_exists($lock_file)) {
-            echo "$process_name is already running.\n";
-            exit(0);
-        }
-        file_put_contents($lock_file, '1');
-    }
-
-    public static function unlock($process_name) {
-		$lock_file = TMP . 'lock' . DS . $process_name;
-		if (file_exists($lock_file)) {
-            unlink($lock_file);
-        }
-		return true;
-	}
-}
-
-BlockStuff::blocksync();