diff --git a/nimble.lock b/nimble.lock
index 8b6327071..6460cef3e 100644
--- a/nimble.lock
+++ b/nimble.lock
@@ -471,16 +471,6 @@
         "sha1": "fa2a7552c6ec860717b77ce34cf0b7afe4570234"
       }
     },
-    "nim": {
-      "version": "2.2.8",
-      "vcsRevision": "",
-      "url": "https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim.git",
-      "downloadMethod": "git",
-      "dependencies": [],
-      "checksums": {
-        "sha1": "dbea2685008ca7504c044fdbcf68abf4bf9931b2"
-      }
-    },
     "presto": {
       "version": "0.1.1",
       "vcsRevision": "d66043dd7ede146442e6c39720c76a20bde5225f",
diff --git a/waku.nimble b/waku.nimble
index 27f143829..72f32dd0e 100644
--- a/waku.nimble
+++ b/waku.nimble
@@ -10,14 +10,15 @@ description = "Waku, Private P2P Messaging for Resource-Restricted Devices"
 license = "MIT or Apache License 2.0"
 #bin           = @["build/waku"]
 
-## We defined the required versions in that way so that the generated nimble.lock
-## doesn't have any reference to nim or nimble. With that, we avoid cross-platform
-## issues when calculating the nim checksum.
+## This indicates the nim compiler version we are currently working on. It may compile with others
+## but we haven't tested.
 const NimVersion    = "2.2.4"
+## This is the underlying nimble version that gets installed after doing `choosenim 2.2.4`.
 const NimbleVersion = "0.18.2"
 
 ### Dependencies
-requires "chronos >= 4.2.0",
+requires "nim >= 2.2.4",
+  "chronos >= 4.2.0",
   "taskpools",
   # Logging & Configuration
   "chronicles",