diff --git a/contrib/build-wine/deterministic.spec b/contrib/build-wine/deterministic.spec
index 92204104d..23fe939ff 100644
--- a/contrib/build-wine/deterministic.spec
+++ b/contrib/build-wine/deterministic.spec
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ datas = [
     (home+'electrum/wordlist/english.txt', 'electrum/wordlist'),
     (home+'electrum/wordlist/slip39.txt', 'electrum/wordlist'),
     (home+'electrum/locale', 'electrum/locale'),
+    (home+'electrum/plugins', 'electrum/plugins'),
     (home+'electrum/gui/icons', 'electrum/gui/icons'),
 ]
 datas += collect_data_files('electrum.plugins')
diff --git a/contrib/osx/osx.spec b/contrib/osx/osx.spec
index d8433c36f..143d7602f 100644
--- a/contrib/osx/osx.spec
+++ b/contrib/osx/osx.spec
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ datas = [
     (electrum + PYPKG + '/wordlist/english.txt', PYPKG + '/wordlist'),
     (electrum + PYPKG + '/wordlist/slip39.txt', PYPKG + '/wordlist'),
     (electrum + PYPKG + '/locale', PYPKG + '/locale'),
+    (electrum + PYPKG + '/plugins', PYPKG + '/plugins'),
     (electrum + PYPKG + '/gui/icons', PYPKG + '/gui/icons'),
 ]
 datas += collect_data_files('electrum.plugins')
diff --git a/electrum/plugin.py b/electrum/plugin.py
index 4be5d323d..e24a8effb 100644
--- a/electrum/plugin.py
+++ b/electrum/plugin.py
@@ -82,6 +82,11 @@ class Plugins(DaemonThread):
             cls._all_found_plugins = dict()
             iter_modules = list(pkgutil.iter_modules([cls.pkgpath]))
             for loader, name, ispkg in iter_modules:
+                # FIXME pyinstaller binaries are packaging each built-in plugin twice:
+                #       once as data and once as code. To honor the "no duplicates" rule below,
+                #       we exclude the ones packaged as *code*, here:
+                if loader.__class__.__qualname__ == "FrozenImporter":
+                    continue
                 full_name = f'electrum.plugins.{name}'
                 spec = importlib.util.find_spec(full_name)
                 if spec is None:  # pkgutil found it but importlib can't ?!