diff --git a/gossipd/gossipd.c b/gossipd/gossipd.c
index 15bd4a46fee5..f82833b68097 100644
--- a/gossipd/gossipd.c
+++ b/gossipd/gossipd.c
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 /*~ Welcome to the gossip daemon: keeper of maps!
  *
- * This is the last "global" daemon; it has three purposes.
+ * This is the last "global" daemon; it has one main purpose: to
+ * maintain the append-only gossip_store file for other daemons and
+ * plugins to read the global network map.
  *
- * 1. To determine routes for payments when lightningd asks.
- * 2. The second purpose is to receive gossip from peers (via their
- *    per-peer daemons) and send it out to them.
- * 3. Talk to `connectd` to to answer address queries for nodes.
+ * To do this, it gets gossip messages forwarded from connectd, makes
+ * gossip queries to peers, and can ask connect out to random peers to
+ * get more gossip.
  *
  * The gossip protocol itself is fairly simple, but has some twists which
  * add complexity to this daemon.
@@ -14,7 +15,6 @@
 #include <ccan/tal/str/str.h>
 #include <common/clock_time.h>
 #include <common/daemon_conn.h>
-#include <common/ecdh_hsmd.h>
 #include <common/memleak.h>
 #include <common/status.h>
 #include <common/subdaemon.h>
@@ -368,21 +368,6 @@ static void master_or_connectd_gone(struct daemon_conn *dc UNUSED)
 	exit(2);
 }
 
-/* We don't check this when loading from the gossip_store: that would break
- * our canned tests, and usually old gossip is better than no gossip */
-bool timestamp_reasonable(const struct daemon *daemon, u32 timestamp)
-{
-	u64 now = clock_time().ts.tv_sec;
-
-	/* More than one day ahead? */
-	if (timestamp > now + 24*60*60)
-		return false;
-	/* More than 2 weeks behind? */
-	if (timestamp < now - GOSSIP_PRUNE_INTERVAL(daemon->dev_fast_gossip_prune))
-		return false;
-	return true;
-}
-
 /*~ Parse init message from lightningd: starts the daemon properly. */
 static void gossip_init(struct daemon *daemon, const u8 *msg)
 {
@@ -591,9 +576,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	daemon->deferred_txouts = tal_arr(daemon, struct short_channel_id, 0);
 	daemon->current_blockheight = 0; /* i.e. unknown */
 
-	/* Tell the ecdh() function how to talk to hsmd */
-	ecdh_hsmd_setup(HSM_FD, status_failed);
-
 	/* Note the use of time_mono() here.  That's a monotonic clock, which
 	 * is really useful: it can only be used to measure relative events
 	 * (there's no correspondence to time-since-Ken-grew-a-beard or
@@ -620,8 +602,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	}
 }
 
-/*~ Note that the actual routing stuff is in routing.c; you might want to
- * check that out later.
+/*~ Note that the production of the gossip_store file is in gossmap_manage.c
+ * and gossip_store.c, and the (highly optimized!)  read side is in
+ * common/gossmap.c; you might want to check those out later.
  *
  * But that's the last of the global daemons.  We now move on to the first of
  * the per-peer daemons: openingd/openingd.c.
diff --git a/gossipd/gossipd.h b/gossipd/gossipd.h
index d558f58f3a26..d8aa5447af30 100644
--- a/gossipd/gossipd.h
+++ b/gossipd/gossipd.h
@@ -8,11 +8,8 @@
 #include <lightningd/options.h>
 #include <wire/peer_wire.h>
 
-/* We talk to `hsmd` to sign our gossip messages with the node key */
-#define HSM_FD 3
-/* connectd asks us for help finding nodes, and gossip fds for new peers */
-#define CONNECTD_FD 4
-#define CONNECTD2_FD 5
+/* connectd forwards gossip messages to us. */
+#define CONNECTD_FD 3
 
 struct chan;
 struct peer;
@@ -161,9 +158,4 @@ void tell_lightningd_peer_update(struct daemon *daemon,
 				 struct amount_msat htlc_minimum,
 				 struct amount_msat htlc_maximum);
 
-/**
- * Is this gossip timestamp reasonable?
- */
-bool timestamp_reasonable(const struct daemon *daemon, u32 timestamp);
-
 #endif /* LIGHTNING_GOSSIPD_GOSSIPD_H */
diff --git a/gossipd/gossmap_manage.c b/gossipd/gossmap_manage.c
index 3227465da5ae..9fd78a1f2803 100644
--- a/gossipd/gossmap_manage.c
+++ b/gossipd/gossmap_manage.c
@@ -893,6 +893,21 @@ static const char *process_channel_update(const tal_t *ctx,
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+/* We don't check this when loading from the gossip_store: that would break
+ * our canned tests, and usually old gossip is better than no gossip */
+static bool timestamp_reasonable(const struct daemon *daemon, u32 timestamp)
+{
+	u64 now = clock_time().ts.tv_sec;
+
+	/* More than one day ahead? */
+	if (timestamp > now + 24*60*60)
+		return false;
+	/* More than 2 weeks behind? */
+	if (timestamp < now - GOSSIP_PRUNE_INTERVAL(daemon->dev_fast_gossip_prune))
+		return false;
+	return true;
+}
+
 const char *gossmap_manage_channel_update(const tal_t *ctx,
 					  struct gossmap_manage *gm,
 					  const u8 *update TAKES,
diff --git a/lightningd/gossip_control.c b/lightningd/gossip_control.c
index 7ecf0a531f7e..a43d967c7d1e 100644
--- a/lightningd/gossip_control.c
+++ b/lightningd/gossip_control.c
@@ -302,14 +302,11 @@ static void gossipd_init_done(struct subd *gossipd,
 void gossip_init(struct lightningd *ld, int connectd_fd)
 {
 	u8 *msg;
-	int hsmfd;
 	void *ret;
 
-	hsmfd = hsm_get_global_fd(ld, HSM_PERM_ECDH|HSM_PERM_SIGN_GOSSIP);
-
 	ld->gossip = new_global_subd(ld, "lightning_gossipd",
 				     gossipd_wire_name, gossip_msg,
-				     take(&hsmfd), take(&connectd_fd), NULL);
+				     take(&connectd_fd), NULL);
 	if (!ld->gossip)
 		err(1, "Could not subdaemon gossip");