diff --git a/share/eds/byzantine/bad_encoding.go b/share/eds/byzantine/bad_encoding.go
index 2005b3b885..40ada65ca6 100644
--- a/share/eds/byzantine/bad_encoding.go
+++ b/share/eds/byzantine/bad_encoding.go
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ const (
 	BadEncoding fraud.ProofType = "badencoding" + version
 )
 
-var ()
-
 type BadEncodingProof struct {
 	headerHash  []byte
 	BlockHeight uint64