diff --git a/plugins/currency/bitcoin/bitcoind_ b/plugins/currency/bitcoin/bitcoind_
index 369fbc63..48de665c 100755
--- a/plugins/currency/bitcoin/bitcoind_
+++ b/plugins/currency/bitcoin/bitcoind_
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 
 """=cut
 =head1 NAME
@@ -48,12 +48,13 @@ Copyright (C) 2012 Mike Koss
 
 =cut"""
 
+import json
 import os
+import re
 import sys
 import time
-import re
-import urllib2
-import json
+import urllib.error
+import urllib.request
 
 
 DEBUG = False
@@ -222,15 +223,15 @@ class Proxy(object):
             'params': args,
             'id': self.id,
             }
-        request = urllib2.Request(self.service.url, json.dumps(data))
+        request = urllib.request.Request(self.service.url, json.dumps(data))
         if self.service.username:
             # Strip the newline from the b64 encoding!
             b64 = ('%s:%s' % (self.service.username, self.service.password)).encode('base64')[:-1]
             request.add_header('Authorization', 'Basic %s' % b64)
 
         try:
-            body = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-        except urllib2.URLError as e:
+            body = urllib.request.urlopen(request).read()
+        except urllib.error.URLError as e:
             return (None, e)
 
         if DEBUG:
@@ -245,8 +246,8 @@ class Proxy(object):
 
 
 def get_json_url(url):
-    request = urllib2.Request(url)
-    body = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+    request = urllib.request.Request(url)
+    body = urllib.request.urlopen(request).read()
     data = json.loads(body)
     return data