diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 95ef36bf0..cf37475aa 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -7,79 +7,7 @@
 #   IPv6 support
 
 sudo: required
-dist: precise
-group: legacy
+dist: trusty
 
-os: linux
-language: cpp
-compiler: gcc
-env:
-  global:
-    - MAKEJOBS=-j3
-    - RUN_TESTS=false
-    - CHECK_DOC=0
-    - BOOST_TEST_RANDOM=1$TRAVIS_BUILD_ID
-    - CCACHE_SIZE=100M
-    - CCACHE_TEMPDIR=/tmp/.ccache-temp
-    - CCACHE_COMPRESS=1
-    - BASE_OUTDIR=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/out
-    - SDK_URL=https://bitcoincore.org/depends-sources/sdks
-    - PYTHON_DEBUG=1
-    - WINEDEBUG=fixme-all
-cache:
-  apt: true
-  directories:
-  - depends/built
-  - depends/sdk-sources
-  - $HOME/.ccache
-matrix:
-  fast_finish: true
-  include:
-    - compiler: ": ARM"
-      env: HOST=arm-linux-gnueabihf PACKAGES="g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf" DEP_OPTS="NO_QT=1" CHECK_DOC=1 GOAL="install" BITCOIN_CONFIG="--enable-glibc-back-compat --enable-reduce-exports"
-    - compiler: ": Win32"
-      env: HOST=i686-w64-mingw32 PPA="ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa" PACKAGES="nsis gcc-mingw-w64-i686 g++-mingw-w64-i686 binutils-mingw-w64-i686 mingw-w64-dev wine1.7 bc" RUN_TESTS=true GOAL="deploy" BITCOIN_CONFIG="--enable-gui --enable-reduce-exports" MAKEJOBS="-j2"
-    - compiler: ": 32-bit + dash"
-      env: HOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu PACKAGES="g++-multilib bc python-zmq" PPA="ppa:chris-lea/zeromq" RUN_TESTS=true GOAL="install" BITCOIN_CONFIG="--enable-zmq --enable-glibc-back-compat --enable-reduce-exports LDFLAGS=-static-libstdc++" USE_SHELL="/bin/dash"
-    - compiler: ": Win64"
-      env: HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 PPA="ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa" PACKAGES="nsis gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64 g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 binutils-mingw-w64-x86-64 mingw-w64-dev wine1.7 bc" RUN_TESTS=true GOAL="deploy" BITCOIN_CONFIG="--enable-gui --enable-reduce-exports" MAKEJOBS="-j2"
-    - compiler: ": bitcoind"
-      env: HOST=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu PACKAGES="bc python-zmq" PPA="ppa:chris-lea/zeromq" DEP_OPTS="NO_QT=1 NO_UPNP=1 DEBUG=1" RUN_TESTS=true GOAL="install" BITCOIN_CONFIG="--enable-zmq --enable-glibc-back-compat --enable-reduce-exports CPPFLAGS=-DDEBUG_LOCKORDER"
-    - compiler: ": No wallet"
-      env: HOST=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu DEP_OPTS="NO_WALLET=1" RUN_TESTS=true GOAL="install" BITCOIN_CONFIG="--enable-glibc-back-compat --enable-reduce-exports"
-    - compiler: ": Cross-Mac"
-      env: HOST=x86_64-apple-darwin11 PACKAGES="cmake imagemagick libcap-dev librsvg2-bin libz-dev libbz2-dev libtiff-tools python-dev" BITCOIN_CONFIG="--enable-reduce-exports" OSX_SDK=10.9 GOAL="deploy"
-  exclude:
-    - compiler: gcc
-install:
-    - if [ -n "$PACKAGES" ]; then sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/travis_ci_zeromq3-source.list; fi
-    - if [ -n "$PPA" ]; then travis_retry sudo add-apt-repository "$PPA" -y; fi
-    - if [ -n "$PACKAGES" ]; then travis_retry sudo apt-get update; fi
-    - if [ -n "$PACKAGES" ]; then travis_retry sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends --no-upgrade -qq $PACKAGES; fi
-before_script:
-    - unset CC; unset CXX
-    - if [ "$CHECK_DOC" = 1 ]; then contrib/devtools/check-doc.py; fi
-    - mkdir -p depends/SDKs depends/sdk-sources
-    - if [ -n "$OSX_SDK" -a ! -f depends/sdk-sources/MacOSX${OSX_SDK}.sdk.tar.gz ]; then curl --location --fail $SDK_URL/MacOSX${OSX_SDK}.sdk.tar.gz -o depends/sdk-sources/MacOSX${OSX_SDK}.sdk.tar.gz; fi
-    - if [ -n "$OSX_SDK" -a -f depends/sdk-sources/MacOSX${OSX_SDK}.sdk.tar.gz ]; then tar -C depends/SDKs -xf depends/sdk-sources/MacOSX${OSX_SDK}.sdk.tar.gz; fi
-    - make $MAKEJOBS -C depends HOST=$HOST $DEP_OPTS
-script:
-    - export TRAVIS_COMMIT_LOG=`git log --format=fuller -1`
-    - if [ -n "$USE_SHELL" ]; then export CONFIG_SHELL="$USE_SHELL"; fi
-    - OUTDIR=$BASE_OUTDIR/$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST/$TRAVIS_JOB_NUMBER-$HOST
-    - BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL="--disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/depends/$HOST --bindir=$OUTDIR/bin --libdir=$OUTDIR/lib"
-    - depends/$HOST/native/bin/ccache --max-size=$CCACHE_SIZE
-    - if [ "$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST" != "false" ]; then export CCACHE_READONLY=1; fi
-    - test -n "$USE_SHELL" && eval '"$USE_SHELL" -c "./autogen.sh"' || ./autogen.sh
-    - ./configure --cache-file=config.cache $BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL $BITCOIN_CONFIG || ( cat config.log && false)
-    - make distdir PACKAGE=bitcoin VERSION=$HOST
-    - cd bitcoin-$HOST
-    - ./configure --cache-file=../config.cache $BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL $BITCOIN_CONFIG || ( cat config.log && false)
-    - make $MAKEJOBS $GOAL || ( echo "Build failure. Verbose build follows." && make $GOAL V=1 ; false )
-    - export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/depends/$HOST/lib
-    - if [ "$RUN_TESTS" = "true" ]; then make check; fi
-    - if [ "$RUN_TESTS" = "true" ]; then qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py --coverage; fi
-after_script:
-    - echo $TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE
-    - echo $TRAVIS_COMMIT_LOG
-    - if [ "$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST" != "false" ]; then (echo "Upload goes here. Something like: scp -r $BASE_OUTDIR server" || echo "upload failed"); fi
+install: true
+script: ./reproducible_build.sh -t
diff --git a/reproducible_build.sh b/reproducible_build.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index f8e7afb62..2af7a04d8
--- a/reproducible_build.sh
+++ b/reproducible_build.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,74 @@
-sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev libbz2-dev libtool autotools-dev autoconf git pkg-config
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+function HELP {
+    echo "Build a lbrycrd"
+    echo "-----"
+    echo "When run without any arguments, this script expects the current directory"
+    echo "to be the lbrycrd repo and it builds what is in that directory"
+    echo
+    echo "Optional arguments:"
+    echo
+    echo "-c: clone a fresh copy of the repo"
+    echo "-h: show help"
+    echo "-t: turn trace on"
+    exit 1
+}
+
+CLONE=false
+
+
+while getopts :hctb:w:d: FLAG; do
+    case $FLAG in
+	c)
+	    CLONE=true
+	    ;;
+	t)
+	    set -o xtrace
+	    ;;
+	h)
+	    HELP
+	    ;;
+	\?) #unrecognized option - show help
+	    echo "Option -$OPTARG not allowed."
+	    HELP
+	    ;;
+	:)
+	    echo "Option -$OPTARG requires an argument."
+	    HELP
+	    ;;
+    esac
+done
+
+shift $((OPTIND-1))
+
+SUDO=''
+if (( $EUID != 0 )); then
+    SUDO='sudo'
+fi
+
+if [ "$CLONE" = false ]; then
+    if [ `basename $PWD` != "lbrycrd" ]; then
+	echo "Not currently in the lbrycrd directory. Cowardly refusing to go forward"
+	exit 1
+    fi
+    SOURCE_DIR=$PWD
+fi
+
+if [ -z ${TRAVIS+x} ]; then
+  # if not on travis, its nice to see progress
+  QUIET=""
+else
+    QUIET="-qq"
+fi
+
+# get the required OS packages
+$SUDO apt-get ${QUIET} update
+$SUDO apt-get ${QUIET} install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    build-essential python-dev libbz2-dev libtool \
+    autotools-dev autoconf git pkg-config wget \
+    ca-certificates automake bsdmainutils
 
 mkdir dependencies
 cd dependencies
@@ -20,9 +90,9 @@ cd openssl-1.0.1p
 ./Configure --prefix=$OPENSSL_PREFIX --openssldir=$OPENSSL_PREFIX/ssl linux-x86_64 -fPIC -static no-shared no-dso
 make
 make install
-export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:${OPENSSL_PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig/"
 cd ..
 
+
 wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.59.0/boost_1_59_0.tar.bz2/download -O boost_1_59_0.tar.bz2
 tar xf boost_1_59_0.tar.bz2
 export BOOST_ROOT="`pwd`/boost_1_59_0"
@@ -31,6 +101,7 @@ cd boost_1_59_0
 ./b2 link=static cxxflags=-fPIC stage
 cd ../../
 
+
 mkdir libevent_build
 git clone https://github.com/libevent/libevent.git
 export LIBEVENT_PREFIX="`pwd`/libevent_build"
@@ -41,12 +112,18 @@ make
 make install
 cd ..
 
-git clone https://github.com/lbryio/lbrycrd
-cd lbrycrd
+set +u
+export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:${OPENSSL_PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig/:${LIBEVENT_PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig"
+set -u
+
+if [ "$CLONE" == true ]; then
+  git clone https://github.com/lbryio/lbrycrd
+  cd lbrycrd
+fi
 ./autogen.sh
 ./configure --without-gui LDFLAGS="-L${OPENSSL_PREFIX}/lib/ -L${BDB_PREFIX}/lib/ -L${LIBEVENT_PREFIX}/lib/ -static-libstdc++" CPPFLAGS="-I${OPENSSL_PREFIX}/include -I${BDB_PREFIX}/include -I${LIBEVENT_PREFIX}/include/"
 make
 strip src/lbrycrdd
 strip src/lbrycrd-cli
 strip src/lbrycrd-tx
-strip src/test/test-lbrycrd
+strip src/test/test_lbrycrd