diff --git a/_contrib/bco-htmlproof b/_contrib/bco-htmlproof
index c2708323..68e399e5 100755
--- a/_contrib/bco-htmlproof
+++ b/_contrib/bco-htmlproof
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ HTML::Proofer.new(
/^$/, ## anchors with no href attribute set (for clickable javascript elements)
/^\/bin/, ## /bin dir is not part of repository; holds Bitcoin Core binaries
/^\/stats/ ## /stats dir is not part of repository; generated by separate stats script
- /^\/bitcoin:/ ## handler link for bitcoin addresses (requires wallet in addition to browser)
],
## Mangle links. If we enable external link checking, this will