diff --git a/conf/conf.go b/conf/conf.go
index 52bbffae..be4f2f13 100644
--- a/conf/conf.go
+++ b/conf/conf.go
@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ import (
 	"path"
 )
 
+const (
+	AppMajor uint = 0
+	AppMinor uint = 0
+	AppPatch uint = 1
+
+	// AppPreRelease MUST only contain characters from semanticAlphabet
+	// per the semantic versioning spec.
+	AppPreRelease = "beta"
+)
+
 const (
 	tagName = "default"
 
diff --git a/conf/version.go b/conf/version.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 636ba41d..00000000
--- a/conf/version.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2013-2014 The btcsuite developers
-// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
-// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-package conf
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"fmt"
-	"strings"
-)
-
-// semanticAlphabet
-const semanticAlphabet = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-"
-
-// These constants define the application version and follow the semantic
-// versioning 2.0.0 spec (http://semver.org/).
-const (
-	AppMajor uint = 0
-	AppMinor uint = 0
-	AppPatch uint = 1
-
-	// AppPreRelease MUST only contain characters from semanticAlphabet
-	// per the semantic versioning spec.
-	AppPreRelease = "beta"
-)
-
-// appBuild is defined as a variable so it can be overridden during the build
-// process with '-ldflags "-X main.appBuild foo' if needed.  It MUST only
-// contain characters from semanticAlphabet per the semantic versioning spec.
-var appBuild string
-
-// Version returns the application version as a properly formed string per the
-// semantic versioning 2.0.0 spec (http://semver.org/).
-func Version() string {
-	// Start with the major, minor, and patch versions.
-	version := fmt.Sprintf("%d.%d.%d", AppMajor, AppMinor, AppPatch)
-
-	// Append pre-release version if there is one.  The hyphen called for
-	// by the semantic versioning spec is automatically appended and should
-	// not be contained in the pre-release string.  The pre-release version
-	// is not appended if it contains invalid characters.
-	preRelease := normalizeVerString(AppPreRelease)
-	if preRelease != "" {
-		version = fmt.Sprintf("%s-%s", version, preRelease)
-	}
-
-	// Append build metadata if there is any.  The plus called for
-	// by the semantic versioning spec is automatically appended and should
-	// not be contained in the build metadata string.  The build metadata
-	// string is not appended if it contains invalid characters.
-	build := normalizeVerString(appBuild)
-	if build != "" {
-		version = fmt.Sprintf("%s+%s", version, build)
-	}
-
-	return version
-}
-
-// normalizeVerString returns the passed string stripped of all characters which
-// are not valid according to the semantic versioning guidelines for pre-release
-// version and build metadata strings.  In particular they MUST only contain
-// characters in semanticAlphabet.
-func normalizeVerString(str string) string {
-	var result bytes.Buffer
-	for _, r := range str {
-		if strings.ContainsRune(semanticAlphabet, r) {
-			result.WriteRune(r)
-		}
-	}
-	return result.String()
-}