diff --git a/src/cryptonote_core/checkpoints_create.h b/src/cryptonote_core/checkpoints_create.h
index 6046a011e..8dff85d84 100644
--- a/src/cryptonote_core/checkpoints_create.h
+++ b/src/cryptonote_core/checkpoints_create.h
@@ -12,17 +12,6 @@
 namespace cryptonote {
   inline bool create_checkpoints(cryptonote::checkpoints& checkpoints)
   {
-    ADD_CHECKPOINT(79000,  "cae33204e624faeb64938d80073bb7bbacc27017dc63f36c5c0f313cad455a02");
-    ADD_CHECKPOINT(140000, "993059fb6ab92db7d80d406c67a52d9c02d873ca34b6290a12b744c970208772");
-    ADD_CHECKPOINT(200000, "a5f74c7542077df6859f48b5b1f9c3741f29df38f91a47e14c94b5696e6c3073");
-    ADD_CHECKPOINT(230580, "32bd7cb6c68a599cf2861941f29002a5e203522b9af54f08dfced316f6459103");
-    ADD_CHECKPOINT(260000, "f68e70b360ca194f48084da7a7fd8e0251bbb4b5587f787ca65a6f5baf3f5947");
-    ADD_CHECKPOINT(300000, "8e80861713f68354760dc10ea6ea79f5f3ff28f39b3f0835a8637463b09d70ff");
-    ADD_CHECKPOINT(390285, "e00bdc9bf407aeace2f3109de11889ed25894bf194231d075eddaec838097eb7");
-    ADD_CHECKPOINT(417000, "2dc96f8fc4d4a4d76b3ed06722829a7ab09d310584b8ecedc9b578b2c458a69f");
-    ADD_CHECKPOINT(427193, "00feabb08f2d5759ed04fd6b799a7513187478696bba2db2af10d4347134e311");
-    ADD_CHECKPOINT(453537, "d17de6916c5aa6ffcae575309c80b0f8fdcd0a84b5fa8e41a841897d4b5a4e97");
-
     return true;
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp b/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp
index e8b6c22fd..6a573c49e 100644
--- a/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ bool wallet2::check_connection()
   net_utils::http::url_content u;
   net_utils::parse_url(m_daemon_address, u);
   if(!u.port)
-    u.port = 8081;  
+    u.port = RPC_DEFAULT_PORT;  
   return m_http_client.connect(u.host, std::to_string(u.port), WALLET_RCP_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT);
 }
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------