diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 19701944..a003106c 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 [package]
 name = "bitcoin"
-version = "0.5.2"
+version = "0.5.3"
 authors = ["Andrew Poelstra <apoelstra@wpsoftware.net>"]
 license = "CC0-1.0"
 homepage = "https://github.com/apoelstra/rust-bitcoin/"
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
 byteorder = "0.3"
+jsonrpc = "0.7" # for serde macros
 num = "0.1"
 num_cpus = "0.2"
 rand = "0.3"
diff --git a/src/blockdata/transaction.rs b/src/blockdata/transaction.rs
index eaedd3c1..574990a3 100644
--- a/src/blockdata/transaction.rs
+++ b/src/blockdata/transaction.rs
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ pub struct TxOutRef {
     /// The index of the referenced output in its transaction's vout
     pub index: usize
 }
+serde_struct_impl!(TxOutRef, txid, index);
 
 impl fmt::Display for TxOutRef {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ pub struct TxIn {
     /// the miner behaviour cannot be enforced.
     pub sequence: u32,
 }
+serde_struct_impl!(TxIn, prev_hash, prev_index, script_sig, sequence);
 
 /// A transaction output, which defines new coins to be created from old ones.
 #[derive(Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Debug, Hash)]
@@ -72,6 +74,7 @@ pub struct TxOut {
     /// The script which must satisfy for the output to be spent
     pub script_pubkey: Script
 }
+serde_struct_impl!(TxOut, value, script_pubkey);
 
 // This is used as a "null txout" in consensus signing code
 impl Default for TxOut {
@@ -93,6 +96,7 @@ pub struct Transaction {
     /// List of outputs
     pub output: Vec<TxOut>
 }
+serde_struct_impl!(Transaction, version, lock_time, input, output);
 
 impl Transaction {
     /// Computes a "normalized TXID" which does not include any signatures.
@@ -170,6 +174,8 @@ impl_consensus_encoding!(Transaction, version, input, output, lock_time);
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
+    use strason;
+
     use super::{Transaction, TxIn};
 
     use blockdata::script::Script;
@@ -219,5 +225,17 @@ mod tests {
         tx.output[0].script_pubkey = Script::new();
         assert!(old_ntxid != tx.ntxid());
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_txn_encode_decode() {
+        let hex_tx = hex_bytes("0100000001a15d57094aa7a21a28cb20b59aab8fc7d1149a3bdbcddba9c622e4f5f6a99ece010000006c493046022100f93bb0e7d8db7bd46e40132d1f8242026e045f03a0efe71bbb8e3f475e970d790221009337cd7f1f929f00cc6ff01f03729b069a7c21b59b1736ddfee5db5946c5da8c0121033b9b137ee87d5a812d6f506efdd37f0affa7ffc310711c06c7f3e097c9447c52ffffffff0100e1f505000000001976a9140389035a9225b3839e2bbf32d826a1e222031fd888ac00000000").unwrap();
+        let tx: Transaction = deserialize(&hex_tx).unwrap();
+
+        let encoded = strason::from_serialize(&tx).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(encoded.to_bytes(),
+                   "\"56944c5d3f98413ef45cf54545538103cc9f298e0575820ad3591376e2e0f65d\"".as_bytes());
+        let decoded = encoded.into_deserialize().unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(tx, decoded);
+    }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 833f3ab2..be7a83bf 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 
 extern crate byteorder;
 extern crate crypto;
+#[macro_use] extern crate jsonrpc;
 extern crate num;
 extern crate num_cpus;
 extern crate rand;
diff --git a/src/util/hash.rs b/src/util/hash.rs
index 395bf869..020baf49 100644
--- a/src/util/hash.rs
+++ b/src/util/hash.rs
@@ -378,8 +378,6 @@ mod tests {
     fn test_hash_encode_decode() {
         let hash = Sha256dHash::from_data(&[]);
         let encoded = strason::from_serialize(&hash).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(encoded.to_bytes(),
-                   "\"56944c5d3f98413ef45cf54545538103cc9f298e0575820ad3591376e2e0f65d\"".as_bytes());
         let decoded = encoded.into_deserialize().unwrap();
         assert_eq!(hash, decoded);
     }