diff --git a/kvdb/interface.go b/kvdb/interface.go
index 616e6317..a54a94d8 100644
--- a/kvdb/interface.go
+++ b/kvdb/interface.go
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package kvdb
 
 import (
 	"github.com/btcsuite/btcwallet/walletdb"
-	_ "github.com/btcsuite/btcwallet/walletdb/bdb" // Import to register backend.
 )
 
 // Update opens a database read/write transaction and executes the function f
diff --git a/lnwallet/btcwallet/config.go b/lnwallet/btcwallet/config.go
index d8983267..a69217ea 100644
--- a/lnwallet/btcwallet/config.go
+++ b/lnwallet/btcwallet/config.go
@@ -9,12 +9,6 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/btcsuite/btcwallet/chain"
 	"github.com/btcsuite/btcwallet/wallet"
-
-	// This is required to register bdb as a valid walletdb driver. In the
-	// init function of the package, it registers itself. The import is used
-	// to activate the side effects w/o actually binding the package name to
-	// a file-level variable.
-	_ "github.com/btcsuite/btcwallet/walletdb/bdb"
 )
 
 var (