diff --git a/plugins/Bigfile/BigfilePlugin.py b/plugins/Bigfile/BigfilePlugin.py
index 78a27b05..8e6e4a10 100644
--- a/plugins/Bigfile/BigfilePlugin.py
+++ b/plugins/Bigfile/BigfilePlugin.py
@@ -15,9 +15,7 @@ import gevent.lock
 from Plugin import PluginManager
 from Debug import Debug
 from Crypt import CryptHash
-with warnings.catch_warnings():
-    warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")  # Ignore missing sha3 warning
-    import merkletools
+from .merkletools import MerkleTools
 
 from util import helper
 from util import Msgpack
@@ -287,8 +285,7 @@ class ContentManagerPlugin(object):
             piece_hashes = []
             piece_recv = 0
 
-            mt = merkletools.MerkleTools()
-            mt.hash_function = CryptHash.sha512t
+            mt = MerkleTools()
 
             part = ""
             for part in self.readFile(read_func, size):
diff --git a/plugins/Bigfile/merkletools.py b/plugins/Bigfile/merkletools.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9b485bda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/Bigfile/merkletools.py
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+import hashlib
+import binascii
+import sys
+from Crypt import CryptHash
+
+class MerkleTools(object):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.hash_function = CryptHash.sha512t
+        self.reset_tree()
+
+    def reset_tree(self):
+        self.leaves = list()
+        self.levels = None
+        self.is_ready = False
+
+    def add_leaf(self, values, do_hash=False):
+        self.is_ready = False
+        # check if single leaf
+        if not isinstance(values, tuple) and not isinstance(values, list):
+            values = [values]
+        for v in values:
+            if do_hash:
+                v = v.encode('utf-8')
+                v = self.hash_function(v).hexdigest()
+            v = bytearray.fromhex(v)
+            self.leaves.append(v)
+
+    def get_leaf(self, index):
+        return self.leaves[index].hex()
+
+    def get_leaf_count(self):
+        return len(self.leaves)
+
+    def get_tree_ready_state(self):
+        return self.is_ready
+
+    def _calculate_next_level(self):
+        solo_leave = None
+        N = len(self.levels[0])  # number of leaves on the level
+        if N % 2 == 1:  # if odd number of leaves on the level
+            solo_leave = self.levels[0][-1]
+            N -= 1
+
+        new_level = []
+        for l, r in zip(self.levels[0][0:N:2], self.levels[0][1:N:2]):
+            new_level.append(self.hash_function(l+r).digest())
+        if solo_leave is not None:
+            new_level.append(solo_leave)
+        self.levels = [new_level, ] + self.levels  # prepend new level
+
+    def make_tree(self):
+        self.is_ready = False
+        if self.get_leaf_count() > 0:
+            self.levels = [self.leaves, ]
+            while len(self.levels[0]) > 1:
+                self._calculate_next_level()
+        self.is_ready = True
+
+    def get_merkle_root(self):
+        if self.is_ready:
+            if self.levels is not None:
+                return self.levels[0][0].hex()
+            else:
+                return None
+        else:
+            return None
+
+    def get_proof(self, index):
+        if self.levels is None:
+            return None
+        elif not self.is_ready or index > len(self.leaves)-1 or index < 0:
+            return None
+        else:
+            proof = []
+            for x in range(len(self.levels) - 1, 0, -1):
+                level_len = len(self.levels[x])
+                if (index == level_len - 1) and (level_len % 2 == 1):  # skip if this is an odd end node
+                    index = int(index / 2.)
+                    continue
+                is_right_node = index % 2
+                sibling_index = index - 1 if is_right_node else index + 1
+                sibling_pos = "left" if is_right_node else "right"
+                sibling_value = self.levels[x][sibling_index].hex()
+                proof.append({sibling_pos: sibling_value})
+                index = int(index / 2.)
+            return proof
+
+    def validate_proof(self, proof, target_hash, merkle_root):
+        merkle_root = bytearray.fromhex(merkle_root)
+        target_hash = bytearray.fromhex(target_hash)
+        if len(proof) == 0:
+            return target_hash == merkle_root
+        else:
+            proof_hash = target_hash
+            for p in proof:
+                try:
+                    # the sibling is a left node
+                    sibling = bytearray.fromhex(p['left'])
+                    proof_hash = self.hash_function(sibling + proof_hash).digest()
+                except:
+                    # the sibling is a right node
+                    sibling = bytearray.fromhex(p['right'])
+                    proof_hash = self.hash_function(proof_hash + sibling).digest()
+            return proof_hash == merkle_root
diff --git a/plugins/Stats/StatsPlugin.py b/plugins/Stats/StatsPlugin.py
index 32fd06c5..e0e34d68 100644
--- a/plugins/Stats/StatsPlugin.py
+++ b/plugins/Stats/StatsPlugin.py
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ class ActionsPlugin:
 
         yield self.formatHead("Libraries:")
         rows = []
-        for lib_name in ["gevent", "greenlet", "msgpack", "base58", "merkletools", "rsa", "socks", "pyasn1", "gevent_ws", "websocket", "maxminddb"]:
+        for lib_name in ["gevent", "greenlet", "msgpack", "base58", "rsa", "socks", "pyasn1", "gevent_ws", "websocket", "maxminddb"]:
             try:
                 module = importlib.import_module(lib_name)
                 if "__version__" in dir(module):
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b3df57ea..643762cd 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ greenlet==0.4.16; python_version <= "3.6"
 gevent>=20.9.0; python_version >= "3.7"
 msgpack>=0.4.4
 base58
-merkletools
 rsa
 PySocks>=1.6.8
 pyasn1