diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c1352044..7142e0f7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,12 +32,6 @@ If Node.js v0.12 isn't installed, it can be installed using "nvm", it can be don
 nvm install v0.12
 ```
 
-Install node-pre-gyp to allow you to get the binaries for bindings or to build the objects from source:
-
-```bash
-npm install node-pre-gyp -g
-```
-
 To build Bitcoin Core and bindings development packages are needed:
 
 ```bash
@@ -85,12 +79,6 @@ If Node.js v0.12 and associated commands "node", "npm" and "nvm" are not already
 nvm install v0.12
 ```
 
-Install node-pre-gyp to allow you to get the binaries for bindings or to build the objects from source:
-
-```bash
-npm install node-pre-gyp -g
-```
-
 Clone the bitcore-node repository locally:
 
 ```bash
@@ -123,8 +111,7 @@ To run tests against the bindings, as defined in `bindings.gyp` the regtest feat
 
 ```bash
 export BITCORENODE_ENV=test
-node-pre-gyp clean
-npm install
+npm run build
 ```
 
 If you do not already have mocha installed:
@@ -142,9 +129,11 @@ mocha -R spec integration/regtest.js
 If any changes have been made to the bindings in the "src" directory, manually compile the Node.js bindings, as defined in `bindings.gyp`, you can run (-d for debug):
 
 ```bash
-$ node-pre-gyp -d rebuild
+$ node-gyp -d rebuild
 ```
 
+Note: `node-gyp` can be installed with `npm install node-gyp -g`
+
 To be able to debug you'll need to have `gdb` and `node` compiled for debugging with gdb using `--gdb` (sometimes called node_g), and you can then run:
 
 ```bash
diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 8acb7d23..245cb203 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -1,30 +1,34 @@
-## Release Notes 
+## Release Process
 
-Binaries for the C++ binding file (which includes libbitcoind statically linked in) are distributed with the help of node-pre-gyp. Node-pre-gyp publishes pre-built binaries to S3 for later download and installation. Source files can also be built if binaries are not desired.
+Binaries for the C++ binding file (which includes libbitcoind statically linked in) are distributed for convenience. The binary binding file `bitcoind.node` is published to S3 for later download and installation. Source files can also be built if binaries are not desired.
 
-## How to release
+### How to Release
 
-Ensure you've followed the instructions in the README.md for building the project from source. You will be using the node-pre-gyp to package and publish the project to S3. You will also need credentials for Bitpay's bitcore-node S3 bucket and be listed as an author for the bitcore-node's npm module.
+Ensure you've followed the instructions in the README.md for building the project from source. You will be using the node-gyp to build buildings and a script upload the binary to S3. You will also need credentials for BitPay's bitcore-node S3 bucket and be listed as an author for the bitcore-node's npm module.
 
-- Create a file, ".node_pre_gyprc" in your home directory
+- Create a file `.bitcore-node-upload.json` in your home directory
 - The format of this file should be:
 
-
 ```json
 {
+  "region": "us-east-1",
   "accessKeyId": "xxx",
   "secretAccessKey": "yyy"
 }
 ```
 
-- then run the commands to push binaries corresponding to the version in package.json to S3 and npm
+To make a release, bump the version of the package.json:
 
 ```bash
+git commit -a -m "Bump package version to <version>"
 npm install
-node-pre-gyp package publish
+npm run upload
 npm publish
 ```
 
- 
-
+And then update the version of the package.json for development (e.g. "0.3.2-dev"):
 
+```bash
+git commit -a -m "Bump development version to <version>"
+git push upstream master
+```
diff --git a/bin/build-libbitcoind b/bin/build
similarity index 97%
rename from bin/build-libbitcoind
rename to bin/build
index 53c8b380..c2ba552e 100755
--- a/bin/build-libbitcoind
+++ b/bin/build
@@ -148,3 +148,16 @@ apply the current patch from "${root_dir}"/etc/bitcoin.patch? (y/N): "
 else
   echo 'Using existing static library.'
 fi
+
+# Building the Bindings
+
+set -e
+
+cd "${root_dir}"
+
+debug=
+if test x"$1" = x'debug'; then
+  debug=--debug
+fi
+
+node-gyp ${debug} rebuild
diff --git a/bin/build-bindings b/bin/build-bindings
deleted file mode 100755
index 7b535542..00000000
--- a/bin/build-bindings
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-
-root_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/.."
-cd "${root_dir}"
-
-debug=
-if test x"$1" = x'debug'; then
-  debug=--debug
-fi
-
-node-pre-gyp ${debug} rebuild --fallback-to-build
-
-
diff --git a/bin/get-tarball-name.js b/bin/get-tarball-name.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0c54e732
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/get-tarball-name.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+'use strict';
+
+var bindings = require('bindings');
+var packageRoot = bindings.getRoot(bindings.getFileName());
+var version = require(packageRoot + '/package.json').version;
+var platform = process.platform;
+var arch = process.arch;
+var tarballName = 'libbitcoind-' + version + '-' + platform + '-' + arch + '.tgz';
+
+if (require.main === module) {
+  process.stdout.write(tarballName);
+}
diff --git a/bin/install b/bin/install
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..54ff97f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/install
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+root_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/.."
+
+cd "${root_dir}"
+
+tarball_name=`node bin/get-tarball-name.js`
+bucket_name="bitcore-node"
+binary_url="https://${bucket_name}.s3.amazonaws.com/${tarball_name}"
+
+echo "Downloading binary: ${binary_url}"
+
+wget -N $binary_url
+
+if test -e "${tarball_name}"; then
+  echo "Unpacking binary distribution"
+  tar -xvzf $tarball_name
+  exit 0;
+else
+  echo "Prebuild binary could not be downloaded, building from source..."
+  ./bin/build
+fi
diff --git a/bin/upload.js b/bin/upload.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3d5a59d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/upload.js
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+'use strict';
+
+var fs = require('fs');
+var chainlib = require('chainlib');
+var log = chainlib.log;
+var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
+
+var config = require(process.env.HOME + '/.bitcore-node-upload.json');
+
+AWS.config.region = config.region;
+AWS.config.update({
+  accessKeyId: config.accessKeyId,
+  secretAccessKey: config.secretAccessKey
+});
+
+var bindings = require('bindings');
+var packageRoot = bindings.getRoot(bindings.getFileName());
+var binaryPath = bindings({
+  path: true,
+  bindings: 'bitcoind.node'
+});
+
+var relativeBinaryPath = binaryPath.replace(packageRoot + '/', '');
+var exec = require('child_process').exec;
+var version = require(packageRoot + '/package.json').version;
+var platform = process.platform;
+var arch = process.arch;
+var tarballName = 'libbitcoind-' + version + '-' + platform + '-' + arch + '.tgz';
+var bucketName = 'bitcore-node';
+var url = 'https://' + bucketName + '.s3.amazonaws.com/' + tarballName;
+
+var child = exec('tar -C ' + packageRoot + ' -cvzf ' + tarballName + ' ' + relativeBinaryPath,
+  function (error, stdout, stderr) {
+
+    if (error) {
+      throw error;
+    }
+
+    if (stdout) {
+      log.info('Tar:', stdout);
+    }
+
+    if (stderr) {
+      log.error(stderr);
+    }
+
+    var fileStream = fs.createReadStream(packageRoot + '/' + tarballName);
+
+    fileStream.on('error', function(err) {
+      if (err) {
+        throw err;
+      }
+    });
+
+    fileStream.on('open', function() {
+
+      var s3 = new AWS.S3();
+
+      var params = {
+        ACL: 'public-read',
+        Key: tarballName,
+        Body: fileStream,
+        Bucket: bucketName
+      };
+
+       s3.putObject(params, function(err, data) {
+         if (err) {
+           throw err;
+         } else {
+           log.info('Successfully uploaded to: ' + url);
+         }
+       });
+
+    });
+
+  }
+);
diff --git a/binding.gyp b/binding.gyp
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index 48deb620..c4f034e3
--- a/binding.gyp
+++ b/binding.gyp
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "targets": [
     {
-      "target_name": "<(module_name)",
+      "target_name": "libbitcoind",
       "include_dirs" : [
         "<!(node -e \"require('nan')\")",
         "<!(./bin/variables.sh cache_dir)/src",
@@ -48,17 +48,6 @@
           "<!(./bin/variables.sh load_archive)"
         ]
       }
-    },
-    {
-      "target_name": "action_after_build",
-      "type": "none",
-      "dependencies": [ "<(module_name)" ],
-      "copies": [
-        {
-          "files": [ "<(PRODUCT_DIR)/<(module_name).node" ],
-          "destination": "<(module_path)"
-        }
-      ]
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/lib/daemon.js b/lib/daemon.js
index 5a3357d4..101cd605 100644
--- a/lib/daemon.js
+++ b/lib/daemon.js
@@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
 'use strict';
 
 var EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter;
-var binary = require('node-pre-gyp');
-var path = require('path');
-var binding_path = binary.find(path.resolve(path.join(__dirname,'../package.json')));
-var bitcoind = require(binding_path);
-var util = require('util');
-var bitcore = require('bitcore');
+var bitcoind = require('bindings')('bitcoind.node');
 var chainlib = require('chainlib');
 var log = chainlib.log;
+var util = require('util');
+var bitcore = require('bitcore');
 var $ = bitcore.util.preconditions;
 
 function Daemon(options) {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0dba559b..bfa7be6c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "bitcore-node",
   "description": "Full node with extended capabilities using Bitcore and Bitcoin Core",
   "author": "BitPay <dev@bitpay.com>",
-  "version": "0.2.0",
+  "version": "0.2.0-dev",
   "main": "./index.js",
   "repository": "git://github.com/bitpay/bitcore-node.git",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore-node.js",
@@ -27,10 +27,11 @@
     }
   ],
   "scripts": {
-    "preinstall": "./bin/build-libbitcoind",
-    "install": "./bin/build-bindings",
-    "start": "node bin/start.js",
+    "install": "./bin/install",
+    "build": "./bin/build",
     "clean": "./bin/clean",
+    "upload": "node bin/upload.js",
+    "start": "node bin/start.js",
     "test": "NODE_ENV=test mocha --recursive",
     "coverage": "istanbul cover _mocha -- --recursive",
     "libbitcoind": "node bin/start-libbitcoind.js"
@@ -40,8 +41,8 @@
     "bitcoind"
   ],
   "dependencies": {
-    "node-pre-gyp": "0.5.x",
     "async": "1.3.0",
+    "bindings": "^1.2.1",
     "bitcore": "^0.12.15",
     "chainlib": "^0.1.1",
     "errno": "^0.1.2",
@@ -60,13 +61,5 @@
     "proxyquire": "^1.3.1",
     "rimraf": "^2.4.2",
     "sinon": "^1.15.4"
-  },
-  "bundledDependencies": ["node-pre-gyp"],
-  "binary": {
-    "module_name" : "bitcoind",
-    "module_path" : "./build/{configuration}/{node_abi}-{platform}-{arch}/",
-    "remote_path" : "./{module_name}/v{version}/{configuration}/",
-    "package_name": "{module_name}-v{version}-{node_abi}-{platform}-{arch}.tar.gz",
-    "host"        : "https://bitcore-node.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com"
   }
 }