diff --git a/src/daemon.rs b/src/daemon.rs
index ca5e8a01..67b3c063 100644
--- a/src/daemon.rs
+++ b/src/daemon.rs
@@ -283,13 +283,14 @@ impl Counter {
 
 pub struct Daemon {
     daemon_dir: PathBuf,
-    daemon_parallelism: usize,
     blocks_dir: PathBuf,
     network: Network,
     conn: Mutex<Connection>,
     message_id: Counter, // for monotonic JSONRPC 'id'
     signal: Waiter,
 
+    rpc_threads: Arc<rayon::ThreadPool>,
+
     // monitoring
     latency: HistogramVec,
     size: HistogramVec,
@@ -308,7 +309,6 @@ impl Daemon {
     ) -> Result<Daemon> {
         let daemon = Daemon {
             daemon_dir: daemon_dir.clone(),
-            daemon_parallelism,
             blocks_dir: blocks_dir.clone(),
             network,
             conn: Mutex::new(Connection::new(
@@ -318,6 +318,13 @@ impl Daemon {
             )?),
             message_id: Counter::new(),
             signal: signal.clone(),
+            rpc_threads: Arc::new(
+                rayon::ThreadPoolBuilder::new()
+                    .num_threads(daemon_parallelism)
+                    .thread_name(|i| format!("rpc-requests-{}", i))
+                    .build()
+                    .unwrap(),
+            ),
             latency: metrics.histogram_vec(
                 HistogramOpts::new("daemon_rpc", "Bitcoind RPC latency (in seconds)"),
                 &["method"],
@@ -361,12 +368,12 @@ impl Daemon {
     pub fn reconnect(&self) -> Result<Daemon> {
         Ok(Daemon {
             daemon_dir: self.daemon_dir.clone(),
-            daemon_parallelism: self.daemon_parallelism,
             blocks_dir: self.blocks_dir.clone(),
             network: self.network,
             conn: Mutex::new(self.conn.lock().unwrap().reconnect()?),
             message_id: Counter::new(),
             signal: self.signal.clone(),
+            rpc_threads: self.rpc_threads.clone(),
             latency: self.latency.clone(),
             size: self.size.clone(),
         })
@@ -455,16 +462,10 @@ impl Daemon {
         method: &'a str,
         params_list: Vec<Value>,
     ) -> impl ParallelIterator<Item = Result<Value>> + 'a {
-        let thread_pool = rayon::ThreadPoolBuilder::new()
-            .num_threads(self.daemon_parallelism)
-            .thread_name(|i| format!("rpc-requests-{}", i))
-            .build()
-            .unwrap();
-
-        thread_pool.install(move || {
+        self.rpc_threads.install(move || {
             params_list.into_par_iter().map(move |params| {
-                // Store a local per-thread Daemon, each with its own TCP connection. These will get initialized as
-                // necessary for the threads managed by rayon, and get destroyed when the thread pool is dropped.
+                // Store a local per-thread Daemon, each with its own TCP connection. These will
+                // get initialized as necessary for the `rpc_threads` pool thread managed by rayon.
                 thread_local!(static DAEMON_INSTANCE: OnceCell<Daemon> = OnceCell::new());
 
                 DAEMON_INSTANCE.with(|daemon| {