diff --git a/gotham-client/Cargo.toml b/gotham-client/Cargo.toml
index 75d1ece..18f31da 100644
--- a/gotham-client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/gotham-client/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ serde_derive = "1.0"
 log = "0.4"
 time = "*"
 clap = { version = "2.32", features = ["yaml"] }
-reqwest = "0.9.5"
+reqwest = {version = "0.9.5", default-features = false}
 uuid = { version = "0.7", features = ["v4"] }
 electrumx_client = { git = "https://github.com/KZen-networks/rust-electrumx-client" }
 itertools = "0.8.0"