diff --git a/chain/rpc.go b/chain/rpc.go
index 4c30c12..cea23ba 100644
--- a/chain/rpc.go
+++ b/chain/rpc.go
@@ -386,8 +386,6 @@ func (c *RPCClient) handler() {
 	enqueue := c.enqueueNotification
 	var dequeue chan interface{}
 	var next interface{}
-	pingChan := time.After(time.Minute)
-	pingChanReset := make(chan (<-chan time.Time))
 out:
 	for {
 		select {
@@ -407,7 +405,6 @@ out:
 				dequeue = c.dequeueNotification
 			}
 			notifications = append(notifications, n)
-			pingChan = time.After(time.Minute)
 
 		case dequeue <- next:
 			if n, ok := next.(BlockConnected); ok {
@@ -430,47 +427,6 @@ out:
 				dequeue = nil
 			}
 
-		case <-pingChan:
-			// No notifications were received in the last 60s. Ensure the
-			// connection is still active by making a new request to the server.
-			//
-			// This MUST wait for the response in a new goroutine so as to not
-			// block channel sends enqueueing more notifications.  Doing so
-			// would cause a deadlock and after the timeout expires, the client
-			// would be shut down.
-			//
-			// TODO: A minute timeout is used to prevent the handler loop from
-			// blocking here forever, but this is much larger than it needs to
-			// be due to dcrd processing websocket requests synchronously (see
-			// https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/504).  Decrease this to
-			// something saner like 3s when the above issue is fixed.
-			type sessionResult struct {
-				err error
-			}
-			sessionResponse := make(chan sessionResult, 1)
-			go func() {
-				_, err := c.Session()
-				sessionResponse <- sessionResult{err}
-			}()
-			go func() {
-				select {
-				case resp := <-sessionResponse:
-					if resp.err != nil {
-						log.Errorf("Failed to receive session "+
-							"result: %v", resp.err)
-						c.Stop()
-					}
-					pingChanReset <- time.After(time.Minute)
-
-				case <-time.After(time.Minute):
-					log.Errorf("Timeout waiting for session RPC")
-					c.Stop()
-				}
-			}()
-
-		case ch := <-pingChanReset:
-			pingChan = ch
-
 		case c.currentBlock <- bs:
 
 		case <-c.quit: