diff --git a/contrib/zmq/zmq_sub.py b/contrib/zmq/zmq_sub.py
index e462198bf..4839f401b 100755
--- a/contrib/zmq/zmq_sub.py
+++ b/contrib/zmq/zmq_sub.py
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ import binascii
 import asyncio, zmq, zmq.asyncio
 import signal
 import struct
+import sys
+
+if not (sys.version_info.major >= 3 and sys.version_info.minor >= 5):
+    print("This example only works with Python 3.5 and greater")
+    exit(1)
 
 port = 28332
 
diff --git a/contrib/zmq/zmq_sub3.4.py b/contrib/zmq/zmq_sub3.4.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..bd0c4fb30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/zmq/zmq_sub3.4.py
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright (c) 2014-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+# A blocking example using python 2.7 can be obtained from the git history:
+# https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/37a7fe9e440b83e2364d5498931253937abe9294/contrib/zmq/zmq_sub.py
+
+import array
+import binascii
+import asyncio, zmq, zmq.asyncio
+import signal
+import struct
+import sys
+
+if not (sys.version_info.major >= 3 and sys.version_info.minor >= 4):
+    print("This example only works with Python 3.4 and greater")
+    exit(1)
+
+port = 28332
+
+class ZMQHandler():
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.loop = zmq.asyncio.install()
+        self.zmqContext = zmq.asyncio.Context()
+
+        self.zmqSubSocket = self.zmqContext.socket(zmq.SUB)
+        self.zmqSubSocket.setsockopt_string(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "hashblock")
+        self.zmqSubSocket.setsockopt_string(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "hashtx")
+        self.zmqSubSocket.setsockopt_string(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "rawblock")
+        self.zmqSubSocket.setsockopt_string(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "rawtx")
+        self.zmqSubSocket.connect("tcp://127.0.0.1:%i" % port)
+
+    @asyncio.coroutine
+    def handle(self) :
+        msg = yield from self.zmqSubSocket.recv_multipart()
+        topic = msg[0]
+        body = msg[1]
+        sequence = "Unknown";
+        if len(msg[-1]) == 4:
+          msgSequence = struct.unpack('<I', msg[-1])[-1]
+          sequence = str(msgSequence)
+        if topic == b"hashblock":
+            print('- HASH BLOCK ('+sequence+') -')
+            print(binascii.hexlify(body))
+        elif topic == b"hashtx":
+            print('- HASH TX  ('+sequence+') -')
+            print(binascii.hexlify(body))
+        elif topic == b"rawblock":
+            print('- RAW BLOCK HEADER ('+sequence+') -')
+            print(binascii.hexlify(body[:80]))
+        elif topic == b"rawtx":
+            print('- RAW TX ('+sequence+') -')
+            print(binascii.hexlify(body))
+        # schedule ourselves to receive the next message
+        asyncio.ensure_future(self.handle())
+
+    def start(self):
+        asyncio.ensure_future(self.handle())
+        self.loop.run_forever()
+
+    def stop(self):
+        self.loop.stop()
+        self.zmqContext.destroy()
+
+daemon = ZMQHandler()
+def signal_handler(num, frame):
+    daemon.stop()
+    exit(0)
+signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal_handler)
+daemon.start()