diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 025226edd..7b71d8392 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ jobs:
     - stage: code quality
       name: "pylint & mypy"
       install:
-        - pip install astroid pylint mypy
+        - pip install astroid pylint mypy==0.701
         - make install
       script: make lint
 
diff --git a/.pylintrc b/lbry/.pylintrc
similarity index 100%
rename from .pylintrc
rename to lbry/.pylintrc