diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0f15507c0..1aa3c7cd3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ BUG FIXES
     - NOTE: this is only for URI requests. JSONRPC requests and all responses
       will use quoted integers (the proto3 JSON standard).
 - [consensus] Fix halt on shutdown
+- [tm_bench] Ignore the first block if we didn't start sending txs by then
 
 ## 0.22.1
 
diff --git a/tools/tm-bench/Gopkg.lock b/tools/tm-bench/Gopkg.lock
index 175acb3a6..aa1d819ca 100644
--- a/tools/tm-bench/Gopkg.lock
+++ b/tools/tm-bench/Gopkg.lock
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
     "prometheus",
     "prometheus/promhttp"
   ]
-  revision = "ae27198cdd90bf12cd134ad79d1366a6cf49f632"
+  revision = "ee1c9d7e23df7f011bdf6f12a5c9e7f0ae10a1fe"
 
 [[projects]]
   branch = "master"
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
     "types",
     "version"
   ]
-  revision = "9d81a74429e093f3167875e0145ad957874c77d1"
+  revision = "f5ad8ef8600c33532a16de0879ff6b9745bb394d"
 
 [[projects]]
   branch = "master"
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
     "netutil",
     "trace"
   ]
-  revision = "292b43bbf7cb8d35ddf40f8d5100ef3837cced3f"
+  revision = "039a4258aec0ad3c79b905677cceeab13b296a77"
 
 [[projects]]
   name = "golang.org/x/text"
@@ -292,10 +292,9 @@
   version = "v0.3.0"
 
 [[projects]]
-  branch = "master"
   name = "google.golang.org/genproto"
   packages = ["googleapis/rpc/status"]
-  revision = "e92b116572682a5b432ddd840aeaba2a559eeff1"
+  revision = "7fd901a49ba6a7f87732eb344f6e3c5b19d1b200"
 
 [[projects]]
   name = "google.golang.org/grpc"
@@ -330,6 +329,6 @@
 [solve-meta]
   analyzer-name = "dep"
   analyzer-version = 1
-  inputs-digest = "bc54a74ffdfc09872726fcf5c72b5df882269dc1cd949ac3fbeac9a554fc25c6"
+  inputs-digest = "5c21a60b80ac7d60f7be693de13f9fadb62226b502431bdb38fb9794a98c5b02"
   solver-name = "gps-cdcl"
   solver-version = 1
diff --git a/tools/tm-bench/Gopkg.toml b/tools/tm-bench/Gopkg.toml
index 18498cbbb..3b2dfa4ec 100644
--- a/tools/tm-bench/Gopkg.toml
+++ b/tools/tm-bench/Gopkg.toml
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@
   name = "github.com/tendermint/tendermint"
   branch = "develop"
 
+# this got updated and broke, so locked to an old working commit ...
+[[override]]
+  name = "google.golang.org/genproto"
+  revision = "7fd901a49ba6a7f87732eb344f6e3c5b19d1b200"
+
 [prune]
   go-tests = true
   unused-packages = true
diff --git a/tools/tm-bench/main.go b/tools/tm-bench/main.go
index 0956e57ec..e93e62ace 100644
--- a/tools/tm-bench/main.go
+++ b/tools/tm-bench/main.go
@@ -189,6 +189,16 @@ func calculateStatistics(
 		offset = len(blockMetas)
 	}
 
+	// Ignore the first block created if there were no txs in it, since we likely didn't begin
+	// sending txs by then. The last index is the block that was already present when we started
+	// this process
+	if blockMetas[len(blockMetas)-2].Header.NumTxs == 0 {
+		if timeStart.Before(blockMetas[len(blockMetas)-2].Header.Time) {
+			timeStart = blockMetas[len(blockMetas)-2].Header.Time
+		}
+		blockMetas = blockMetas[:len(blockMetas)-2]
+	}
+
 	var (
 		numBlocksPerSec = make(map[int64]int64)
 		numTxsPerSec    = make(map[int64]int64)
@@ -201,7 +211,7 @@ func calculateStatistics(
 	}
 
 	// iterates from max height to min height
-	for _, blockMeta := range blockMetas {
+	for i, blockMeta := range blockMetas {
 		// check if block was created after timeStart
 		if blockMeta.Header.Time.Before(timeStart) {
 			break
@@ -218,6 +228,7 @@ func calculateStatistics(
 
 		// increase number of txs for that second
 		numTxsPerSec[sec] += blockMeta.Header.NumTxs
+		logger.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("%d txs in block %d, height %d", blockMeta.Header.NumTxs, i, blockMeta.Header.Height))
 	}
 
 	for _, n := range numBlocksPerSec {