diff --git a/dockerfiles/super_node/Dockerfile b/dockerfiles/super_node/Dockerfile
index 84ebe54e..4ed122f1 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/super_node/Dockerfile
+++ b/dockerfiles/super_node/Dockerfile
@@ -1,25 +1,14 @@
-FROM golang:alpine
+FROM golang:alpine as builder
 
 RUN apk --update --no-cache add make git g++ linux-headers
 # DEBUG
 RUN apk add busybox-extras
 
-# this is probably a noob move, but I want apk from alpine for the above but need to avoid Go 1.13 below as this error still occurs https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/6603
-FROM golang:1.12.4 as builder
-
 # Get and build vulcanizedb
 ADD . /go/src/github.com/vulcanize/vulcanizedb
 WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/vulcanize/vulcanizedb
 RUN GO111MODULE=on GCO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -a -installsuffix cgo -ldflags '-extldflags "-static"' -o vulcanizedb .
 
-# Get and build vulcanize's go-ipfs fork
-RUN go get -u -d github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs
-WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs
-RUN git remote add vulcanize https://github.com/vulcanize/go-ipfs.git
-RUN git fetch vulcanize
-RUN git checkout -b pg_ipfs vulcanize/postgres_update
-RUN GO111MODULE=on GCO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -a -installsuffix cgo -ldflags '-extldflags "-static"' -o ipfs ./cmd/ipfs
-
 # Build migration tool
 RUN go get -u -d github.com/pressly/goose/cmd/goose
 WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/pressly/goose/cmd/goose
@@ -52,7 +41,6 @@ COPY --from=builder /go/src/github.com/vulcanize/vulcanizedb/vulcanizedb vulcani
 COPY --from=builder /go/src/github.com/pressly/goose/cmd/goose/goose goose
 COPY --from=builder /go/src/github.com/vulcanize/vulcanizedb/db/migrations migrations/vulcanizedb
 COPY --from=builder /go/src/github.com/vulcanize/vulcanizedb/environments environments
-COPY --from=builder /go/src/github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/ipfs ipfs
 
 EXPOSE $EXPOSE_PORT_1
 EXPOSE $EXPOSE_PORT_2
diff --git a/dockerfiles/super_node/docker-compose.yml b/dockerfiles/super_node/docker-compose.yml
index b12a514e..4487be47 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/super_node/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/dockerfiles/super_node/docker-compose.yml
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ services:
         CONFIG_FILE: ./environments/superNodeBTC.toml
     environment:
       VDB_COMMAND: "superNode"
-      IPFS_INIT: "true"
-      IPFS_PATH: "/root/.btc/.ipfs"
       DATABASE_NAME: "vulcanize_public"
       DATABASE_HOSTNAME: "db"
       DATABASE_PORT: 5432
@@ -54,8 +52,6 @@ services:
         CONFIG_FILE: ./environments/superNodeETH.toml
     environment:
       VDB_COMMAND: "superNode"
-      IPFS_INIT: "true"
-      IPFS_PATH: "/root/.eth/.ipfs"
       DATABASE_NAME: "vulcanize_public"
       DATABASE_HOSTNAME: "db"
       DATABASE_PORT: 5432
diff --git a/dockerfiles/super_node/entrypoint.sh b/dockerfiles/super_node/entrypoint.sh
index 77fa4778..a4a1de6b 100755
--- a/dockerfiles/super_node/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/dockerfiles/super_node/entrypoint.sh
@@ -31,27 +31,6 @@ if [ $rv != 0 ]; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
-# Export our database variables so that the IPFS Postgres plugin can use them
-export IPFS_PGHOST=$DATABASE_HOSTNAME
-export IPFS_PGUSER=$DATABASE_USER
-export IPFS_PGDATABASE=$DATABASE_NAME
-export IPFS_PGPORT=$DATABASE_PORT
-export IPFS_PGPASSWORD=$DATABASE_PASSWORD
-
-
-if [ ! -d "$HOME/.ipfs" ]; then
-  # initialize PG-IPFS
-  echo "Initializing Postgres-IPFS profile"
-  ./ipfs init --profile=postgresds
-
-  rv=$?
-  if [ $rv != 0 ]; then
-    echo "Could not initialize ipfs"
-    exit 1
-  fi
-fi
-
-
 echo "Beginning the vulcanizedb process"
 VDB_CONFIG_FILE=${VDB_CONFIG_FILE:-config.toml}
 DEFAULT_OPTIONS="--config=$VDB_CONFIG_FILE"