diff --git a/pub_key.go b/pub_key.go
index 6eeb4a86e..47eba9ed6 100644
--- a/pub_key.go
+++ b/pub_key.go
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ type PubKeyEd25519 [32]byte
 // For now, we artificially append the type byte in front to give us backwards
 // compatibility for when the pubkey wasn't fixed length array
 func (pubKey PubKeyEd25519) Address() []byte {
-	w, n, err := new(bytes.Buffer), new(int64), new(error)
+	w, n, err := new(bytes.Buffer), new(int), new(error)
 	wire.WriteBinary(pubKey[:], w, n, err)
 	if *err != nil {
 		PanicCrisis(*err)