diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
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+language: c
+dist: bionic
+
+notifications:
+  email: false
+
+cache:
+  directories:
+    - dependencies
+
+before_install:
+  sudo apt-get install -y libsqlite3-dev gcc-4.8 gettext python python3 python3-mako net-tools zlib1g-dev libsodium-dev
+
+script:
+  .travis/build.sh
+
diff --git a/.travis/build.sh b/.travis/build.sh
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+#!/bin/bash -x
+set -e
+
+CWD=$(pwd)
+export SLOW_MACHINE=1
+export PATH=$CWD/dependencies/bin:$CWD/dependencies/usr/local/bin/:/tmp/lightning/lightningd/:"$HOME"/.local/bin:"$PATH"
+export PYTEST_PAR=10
+export TEST_DEBUG=1
+export LIGHTNING_VERSION=${LIGHTNING_VERSION:-master}
+export PYTHONPATH=/tmp/lightning/contrib/pyln-client:/tmp/lightning/contrib/pyln-testing:/tmp/lightning/contrib/pylightning:$$PYTHONPATH
+
+mkdir -p dependencies/bin
+
+# Download bitcoind and bitcoin-cli 
+if [ ! -f dependencies/bin/bitcoind ]; then
+    wget https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.17.1/bitcoin-0.17.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
+    tar -xzf bitcoin-0.17.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
+    mv bitcoin-0.17.1/bin/* dependencies/bin
+    rm -rf bitcoin-0.17.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz bitcoin-0.17.1
+fi
+
+pyenv global 3.7.1
+pip3 install --upgrade pip
+pip3 install --user --quiet \
+     pyln-testing \
+     mako==1.0.14 \
+     psycopg2-binary==2.8.3 \
+     pytest-timeout==1.3.3 \
+     pytest-xdist==1.30.0
+
+# Install the pyln-client and testing library matching c-lightning `master`
+
+PY3=$(which python3)
+
+git clone --recursive https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning.git /tmp/lightning
+(cd /tmp/lightning && git checkout "$LIGHTNING_VERSION")
+(cd /tmp/lightning/contrib/pyln-client && $PY3 setup.py install)
+(cd /tmp/lightning/contrib/pyln-testing && $PY3 setup.py install)
+
+# Compiling lightningd can be noisy and time-consuming, cache the binaries
+if [ ! -f "$CWD/dependencies/usr/local/bin/lightningd" ]; then
+    (
+	cd /tmp/lightning && \
+	./configure --enable-developer --disable-valgrind --enable-experimental-features && \
+	make -j 8 DESTDIR=dependencies/
+    )
+fi
+
+# Collect libraries that the plugins need and install them
+find . -name requirements.txt -exec pip3 install --user -r {} \;
+
+pytest -vvv --timeout=550 --timeout_method=thread -p no:logging -n 10