diff --git a/src/Hash2Pub/Utils.hs b/src/Hash2Pub/Utils.hs
index 660dc51..284239a 100644
--- a/src/Hash2Pub/Utils.hs
+++ b/src/Hash2Pub/Utils.hs
@@ -4,11 +4,6 @@ module Hash2Pub.Utils where
 import qualified Data.ByteString as BS
 import qualified Data.Set        as Set
 
--- |wraps a list into a Maybe, by replacing empty lists with Nothing
-maybeEmpty :: [a] -> Maybe [a]
-maybeEmpty []           = Nothing
-maybeEmpty nonemptyList = Just nonemptyList
-
 -- | Chop a list into sublists of i elements. The last sublist might contain
 -- less than i elements.
 chunksOf :: Int -> [a] -> [[a]]