diff --git a/.github/scripts/install-bitcoind.sh b/.github/scripts/install-bitcoind.sh
index 3059f8433..31bc8455b 100755
--- a/.github/scripts/install-bitcoind.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/install-bitcoind.sh
@@ -8,12 +8,21 @@ FILENAME="${DIRNAME}-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz"
 EFILENAME="${EDIRNAME}-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz"
 
 cd /tmp/
-wget "https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-${BITCOIN_VERSION}/${FILENAME}"
-wget "https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/releases/download/elements-${ELEMENTS_VERSION}/${EFILENAME}"
-tar -xf "${FILENAME}"
-tar -xf "${EFILENAME}"
-sudo mv "${DIRNAME}"/bin/* "/usr/local/bin"
-sudo mv "${EDIRNAME}"/bin/* "/usr/local/bin"
 
+# Since we inadvertently broke `elementsd` support in the past we only
+# want to download and enable the daemon that is actually going to be
+# used when running in CI. Otherwise we could end up accidentally
+# testing against `bitcoind` but still believe that we ran against
+# `elementsd`.
+if [ "$TEST_NETWORK" = "liquid-regtest" ]; then
+    wget "https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/releases/download/elements-${ELEMENTS_VERSION}/${EFILENAME}"
+    tar -xf "${EFILENAME}"
+    sudo mv "${EDIRNAME}"/bin/* "/usr/local/bin"
+    rm -rf "${EFILENAME}" "${EDIRNAME}"
+else
+    wget "https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-${BITCOIN_VERSION}/${FILENAME}"
+    tar -xf "${FILENAME}"
+    sudo mv "${DIRNAME}"/bin/* "/usr/local/bin"
+    rm -rf "${FILENAME}" "${DIRNAME}"
+fi
 
-rm -rf "${FILENAME}" "${EFILENAME}" "${DIRNAME}" "${EDIRNAME}"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index e8f7c35eb..e197dd9d8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -275,6 +275,8 @@ jobs:
           poetry install
 
       - name: Install bitcoind
+        env:
+          TEST_NETWORK: ${{ matrix.TEST_NETWORK }}
         run: .github/scripts/install-bitcoind.sh
 
       - name: Download build