diff --git a/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix b/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix
index 84d89510679c..6ec3c1a112dd 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@
       plex = 193;
       grafana = 196;
       skydns = 197;
-      ripple-rest = 198;
+      # ripple-rest = 198; # unused, removed 2017-08-12
       nix-serve = 199;
       tvheadend = 200;
       uwsgi = 201;
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@
       sabnzbd = 194;
       #grafana = 196; #unused
       #skydns = 197; #unused
-      #ripple-rest = 198; #unused
+      # ripple-rest = 198; # unused, removed 2017-08-12
       #nix-serve = 199; #unused
       #tvheadend = 200; #unused
       uwsgi = 201;
diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
index 6062bf623e75..1da1ea5ae115 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -323,7 +323,6 @@
   ./services/misc/radarr.nix
   ./services/misc/redmine.nix
   ./services/misc/rippled.nix
-  ./services/misc/ripple-rest.nix
   ./services/misc/ripple-data-api.nix
   ./services/misc/rogue.nix
   ./services/misc/siproxd.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/misc/ripple-rest.nix b/nixos/modules/services/misc/ripple-rest.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 49520f68a50a..000000000000
--- a/nixos/modules/services/misc/ripple-rest.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,110 +0,0 @@
-{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
-
-with lib;
-
-let
-  cfg = config.services.rippleRest;
-
-  configFile = pkgs.writeText "ripple-rest-config.json" (builtins.toJSON {
-    config_version = "2.0.3";
-    debug = cfg.debug;
-    port = cfg.port;
-    host = cfg.host;
-    ssl_enabled = cfg.ssl.enable;
-    ssl = {
-      key_path = cfg.ssl.keyPath;
-      cert_path = cfg.ssl.certPath;
-      reject_unathorized = cfg.ssl.rejectUnathorized;
-    };
-    db_path = cfg.dbPath;
-    max_transaction_fee = cfg.maxTransactionFee;
-    rippled_servers = cfg.rippleds;
-  });
-
-in {
-  options.services.rippleRest = {
-    enable = mkEnableOption "ripple rest";
-
-    debug = mkEnableOption "debug for ripple-rest";
-
-    host = mkOption {
-      description = "Ripple rest host.";
-      default = "localhost";
-      type = types.str;
-    };
-
-    port = mkOption {
-      description = "Ripple rest port.";
-      default = 5990;
-      type = types.int;
-    };
-
-    ssl = {
-      enable = mkEnableOption "ssl";
-
-      keyPath = mkOption {
-        description = "Path to the ripple rest key file.";
-        default = null;
-        type = types.nullOr types.path;
-      };
-
-
-      certPath = mkOption {
-        description = "Path to the ripple rest cert file.";
-        default = null;
-        type = types.nullOr types.path;
-      };
-
-      rejectUnathorized = mkOption {
-        description = "Whether to reject unatohroized.";
-        default = true;
-        type = types.bool;
-      };
-    };
-
-    dbPath = mkOption {
-      description = "Ripple rest database path.";
-      default = "${cfg.dataDir}/ripple-rest.db";
-      type = types.path;
-    };
-
-    maxTransactionFee = mkOption {
-      description = "Ripple rest max transaction fee.";
-      default = 1000000;
-      type = types.int;
-    };
-
-    rippleds = mkOption {
-      description = "List of rippled servers.";
-      default = [
-        "wss://s1.ripple.com:443"
-      ];
-      type = types.listOf types.str;
-    };
-
-    dataDir = mkOption {
-      description = "Ripple rest data directory.";
-      default = "/var/lib/ripple-rest";
-      type = types.path;
-    };
-  };
-
-  config = mkIf (cfg.enable) {
-    systemd.services.ripple-rest = {
-      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target"];
-      after = ["network.target" ];
-      environment.NODE_PATH="${pkgs.ripple-rest}/lib/node_modules/ripple-rest/node_modules";
-      serviceConfig = {
-        ExecStart = "${pkgs.nodejs}/bin/node ${pkgs.ripple-rest}/lib/node_modules/ripple-rest/server/server.js --config ${configFile}";
-        User = "ripple-rest";
-      };
-    };
-
-    users.extraUsers.postgres = {
-      name = "ripple-rest";
-      uid = config.ids.uids.ripple-rest;
-      createHome = true;
-      home = cfg.dataDir;
-    };
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/rippled/ripple-rest.nix b/pkgs/servers/rippled/ripple-rest.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 3449645f1851..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/rippled/ripple-rest.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, fetchFromGitHub, nodePackages }:
-
-with lib;
-
-let
-  np = nodePackages.override { generated = ./package.nix; self = np; };
-in nodePackages.buildNodePackage rec {
-  name = "ripple-rest-${version}";
-  version = "1.7.0-rc1";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    repo = "ripple-rest";
-    owner = "ripple";
-    rev = version;
-    sha256 = "19ixgrz40iawd927jan0g1ac8w56wxh2vy3n3sa3dn9cmjd4k2r3";
-  };
-
-  deps = (filter (v: nixType v == "derivation") (attrValues np));
-
-  meta = {
-    description = " RESTful API for submitting payments and monitoring accounts on the Ripple Network";
-    homepage = https://github.com/ripple/ripple-rest;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ offline ];
-    license = [ licenses.mit ];
-    broken = true;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 89ccc094e011..34e46b2885dd 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11496,8 +11496,6 @@ with pkgs;
     boost = boost159;
   };
 
-  #ripple-rest = callPackage ../servers/rippled/ripple-rest.nix { };
-
   s6 = callPackage ../tools/system/s6 { };
 
   s6-rc = callPackage ../tools/system/s6-rc { };