diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d72929a..f26efda 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ requests>=2.9.1,<2.22.0
 vdf>=2.0
 gevent>=1.2.0
 protobuf>=3.0.0
-gevent-eventemitter>=2.0
+gevent-eventemitter>=2.1
 enum34==1.1.2; python_version < '3.4'
 coverage==4.0.3
 pytest==3.2.1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index af0c1a7..f876380 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ install_requires = [
     'vdf>=2.0',
     'gevent>=1.2.0',
     'protobuf>=3.0.0',
-    'gevent-eventemitter>=2.0',
+    'gevent-eventemitter>=2.1',
     'cachetools>=3.0.0',
 ]