diff --git a/util/btcctl/config.go b/util/btcctl/config.go
index 553fde44..27e670fc 100644
--- a/util/btcctl/config.go
+++ b/util/btcctl/config.go
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ func loadConfig() (*flags.Parser, *config, []string, error) {
 	// here since they will be caught be the final parse below.
 	preCfg := cfg
 	preParser := flags.NewParser(&preCfg, flags.None)
-	preParser.Parse()
+	_, _ = preParser.Parse()
 
 	// Show the version and exit if the version flag was specified.
 	if preCfg.ShowVersion {
diff --git a/util/btcctl/version.go b/util/btcctl/version.go
index c947516b..2c9bc639 100644
--- a/util/btcctl/version.go
+++ b/util/btcctl/version.go
@@ -65,7 +65,10 @@ func normalizeVerString(str string) string {
 	var result bytes.Buffer
 	for _, r := range str {
 		if strings.ContainsRune(semanticAlphabet, r) {
-			result.WriteRune(r)
+			// Ignoring the error here since it can only fail if
+			// the the system is out of memory and there are much
+			// bigger issues at that point.
+			_, _ = result.WriteRune(r)
 		}
 	}
 	return result.String()