diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index f1b10d3bd1..7cc320dddb 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ before_script:
     - if [ "$CHECK_DOC" = 1 -a "$TRAVIS_EVENT_TYPE" = "pull_request" ]; then contrib/devtools/commit-script-check.sh $TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE; fi
     - if [ "$CHECK_DOC" = 1 ]; then contrib/devtools/check-doc.py; fi
     - unset CC; unset CXX
+    - rm -rf ~/.bitcoin
     - mkdir -p depends/SDKs depends/sdk-sources
     - if [ -n "$OSX_SDK" -a ! -f depends/sdk-sources/MacOSX${OSX_SDK}.sdk.tar.gz ]; then curl --location --fail $SDK_URL/MacOSX${OSX_SDK}.sdk.tar.gz -o depends/sdk-sources/MacOSX${OSX_SDK}.sdk.tar.gz; fi
     - if [ -n "$OSX_SDK" -a -f depends/sdk-sources/MacOSX${OSX_SDK}.sdk.tar.gz ]; then tar -C depends/SDKs -xf depends/sdk-sources/MacOSX${OSX_SDK}.sdk.tar.gz; fi