diff --git a/ci/test/04_install.sh b/ci/test/04_install.sh
index 6390667394f..e9c54139a70 100755
--- a/ci/test/04_install.sh
+++ b/ci/test/04_install.sh
@@ -74,39 +74,3 @@ CI_EXEC rsync --archive --stats --human-readable /ro_base/ "${BASE_ROOT_DIR}" ||
 CI_EXEC git config --global --add safe.directory \"*\"
 
 CI_EXEC mkdir -p "${BINS_SCRATCH_DIR}"
-
-if [ "$CI_OS_NAME" == "macos" ]; then
-  top -l 1 -s 0 | awk ' /PhysMem/ {print}'
-  echo "Number of CPUs: $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)"
-else
-  CI_EXEC free -m -h
-  CI_EXEC echo "Number of CPUs \(nproc\):" \$\(nproc\)
-  CI_EXEC echo "$(lscpu | grep Endian)"
-fi
-CI_EXEC echo "Free disk space:"
-CI_EXEC df -h
-
-if [ "$RUN_FUZZ_TESTS" = "true" ]; then
-  export DIR_FUZZ_IN=${DIR_QA_ASSETS}/fuzz_seed_corpus/
-  if [ ! -d "$DIR_FUZZ_IN" ]; then
-    CI_EXEC git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/bitcoin-core/qa-assets "${DIR_QA_ASSETS}"
-  fi
-elif [ "$RUN_UNIT_TESTS" = "true" ] || [ "$RUN_UNIT_TESTS_SEQUENTIAL" = "true" ]; then
-  export DIR_UNIT_TEST_DATA=${DIR_QA_ASSETS}/unit_test_data/
-  if [ ! -d "$DIR_UNIT_TEST_DATA" ]; then
-    CI_EXEC mkdir -p "$DIR_UNIT_TEST_DATA"
-    CI_EXEC curl --location --fail https://github.com/bitcoin-core/qa-assets/raw/main/unit_test_data/script_assets_test.json -o "${DIR_UNIT_TEST_DATA}/script_assets_test.json"
-  fi
-fi
-
-CI_EXEC mkdir -p "${BASE_SCRATCH_DIR}/sanitizer-output/"
-
-if [ "$USE_BUSY_BOX" = "true" ]; then
-  echo "Setup to use BusyBox utils"
-  # tar excluded for now because it requires passing in the exact archive type in ./depends (fixed in later BusyBox version)
-  # ar excluded for now because it does not recognize the -q option in ./depends (unknown if fixed)
-  # shellcheck disable=SC1010
-  CI_EXEC for util in \$\(busybox --list \| grep -v "^ar$" \| grep -v "^tar$" \)\; do ln -s \$\(command -v busybox\) "${BINS_SCRATCH_DIR}/\$util"\; done
-  # Print BusyBox version
-  CI_EXEC patch --help
-fi
diff --git a/ci/test/05_before_script.sh b/ci/test/05_before_script.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 199cdd64a7c..00000000000
--- a/ci/test/05_before_script.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2018-2022 The Bitcoin Core developers
-# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
-# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
-
-export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
-
-# Make sure default datadir does not exist and is never read by creating a dummy file
-if [ "$CI_OS_NAME" == "macos" ]; then
-  echo > "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin"
-else
-  CI_EXEC echo \> \$HOME/.bitcoin
-fi
-
-if [ -z "$NO_DEPENDS" ]; then
-  if [[ $CI_IMAGE_NAME_TAG == *centos* ]]; then
-    # CentOS has problems building the depends if the config shell is not explicitly set
-    # (i.e. for libevent a Makefile with an empty SHELL variable is generated, leading to
-    #  an error as the first command is executed)
-    SHELL_OPTS="LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/dash"
-  else
-    SHELL_OPTS="CONFIG_SHELL="
-  fi
-  CI_EXEC "$SHELL_OPTS" make "$MAKEJOBS" -C depends HOST="$HOST" "$DEP_OPTS" LOG=1
-fi
-if [ "$DOWNLOAD_PREVIOUS_RELEASES" = "true" ]; then
-  CI_EXEC test/get_previous_releases.py -b -t "$PREVIOUS_RELEASES_DIR"
-fi
diff --git a/ci/test/06_script_a.sh b/ci/test/06_script_a.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 5856d33d2db..00000000000
--- a/ci/test/06_script_a.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2018-2022 The Bitcoin Core developers
-# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
-# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
-
-export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
-
-BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL="--enable-suppress-external-warnings --disable-dependency-tracking"
-if [ -z "$NO_DEPENDS" ]; then
-  BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL="${BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL} CONFIG_SITE=$DEPENDS_DIR/$HOST/share/config.site"
-fi
-if [ -z "$NO_WERROR" ]; then
-  BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL="${BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL} --enable-werror"
-fi
-
-CI_EXEC "ccache --zero-stats --max-size=$CCACHE_SIZE"
-PRINT_CCACHE_STATISTICS="ccache --version | head -n 1 && ccache --show-stats"
-
-if [ -n "$ANDROID_TOOLS_URL" ]; then
-  CI_EXEC make distclean || true
-  CI_EXEC ./autogen.sh
-  CI_EXEC ./configure "$BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL" "$BITCOIN_CONFIG" || ( (CI_EXEC cat config.log) && false)
-  CI_EXEC "make $MAKEJOBS && cd src/qt && ANDROID_HOME=${ANDROID_HOME} ANDROID_NDK_HOME=${ANDROID_NDK_HOME} make apk"
-  CI_EXEC "${PRINT_CCACHE_STATISTICS}"
-  exit 0
-fi
-
-BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL="${BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL} --enable-external-signer --prefix=$BASE_OUTDIR"
-
-if [ -n "$CONFIG_SHELL" ]; then
-  CI_EXEC "$CONFIG_SHELL" -c "./autogen.sh"
-else
-  CI_EXEC ./autogen.sh
-fi
-
-CI_EXEC mkdir -p "${BASE_BUILD_DIR}"
-export P_CI_DIR="${BASE_BUILD_DIR}"
-
-CI_EXEC "${BASE_ROOT_DIR}/configure" --cache-file=config.cache "$BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL" "$BITCOIN_CONFIG" || ( (CI_EXEC cat config.log) && false)
-
-CI_EXEC make distdir VERSION="$HOST"
-
-export P_CI_DIR="${BASE_BUILD_DIR}/bitcoin-$HOST"
-
-CI_EXEC ./configure --cache-file=../config.cache "$BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL" "$BITCOIN_CONFIG" || ( (CI_EXEC cat config.log) && false)
-
-set -o errtrace
-trap 'CI_EXEC "cat ${BASE_SCRATCH_DIR}/sanitizer-output/* 2> /dev/null"' ERR
-
-if [[ ${USE_MEMORY_SANITIZER} == "true" ]]; then
-  # MemorySanitizer (MSAN) does not support tracking memory initialization done by
-  # using the Linux getrandom syscall. Avoid using getrandom by undefining
-  # HAVE_SYS_GETRANDOM. See https://github.com/google/sanitizers/issues/852 for
-  # details.
-  CI_EXEC 'grep -v HAVE_SYS_GETRANDOM src/config/bitcoin-config.h > src/config/bitcoin-config.h.tmp && mv src/config/bitcoin-config.h.tmp src/config/bitcoin-config.h'
-fi
-
-if [[ "${RUN_TIDY}" == "true" ]]; then
-  MAYBE_BEAR="bear --config src/.bear-tidy-config"
-  MAYBE_TOKEN="--"
-fi
-
-CI_EXEC "${MAYBE_BEAR}" "${MAYBE_TOKEN}" make "$MAKEJOBS" "$GOAL" || ( echo "Build failure. Verbose build follows." && CI_EXEC make "$GOAL" V=1 ; false )
-
-CI_EXEC "${PRINT_CCACHE_STATISTICS}"
-CI_EXEC du -sh "${DEPENDS_DIR}"/*/
-CI_EXEC du -sh "${PREVIOUS_RELEASES_DIR}"
diff --git a/ci/test/06_script_b.sh b/ci/test/06_script_b.sh
index 3efbe8afc6c..fa6dced5209 100755
--- a/ci/test/06_script_b.sh
+++ b/ci/test/06_script_b.sh
@@ -8,6 +8,125 @@ export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 
 set -ex
 
+if [ "$CI_OS_NAME" == "macos" ]; then
+  top -l 1 -s 0 | awk ' /PhysMem/ {print}'
+  echo "Number of CPUs: $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)"
+else
+  CI_EXEC free -m -h
+  CI_EXEC echo "Number of CPUs \(nproc\):" \$\(nproc\)
+  CI_EXEC echo "$(lscpu | grep Endian)"
+fi
+CI_EXEC echo "Free disk space:"
+CI_EXEC df -h
+
+if [ "$RUN_FUZZ_TESTS" = "true" ]; then
+  export DIR_FUZZ_IN=${DIR_QA_ASSETS}/fuzz_seed_corpus/
+  if [ ! -d "$DIR_FUZZ_IN" ]; then
+    CI_EXEC git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/bitcoin-core/qa-assets "${DIR_QA_ASSETS}"
+  fi
+elif [ "$RUN_UNIT_TESTS" = "true" ] || [ "$RUN_UNIT_TESTS_SEQUENTIAL" = "true" ]; then
+  export DIR_UNIT_TEST_DATA=${DIR_QA_ASSETS}/unit_test_data/
+  if [ ! -d "$DIR_UNIT_TEST_DATA" ]; then
+    CI_EXEC mkdir -p "$DIR_UNIT_TEST_DATA"
+    CI_EXEC curl --location --fail https://github.com/bitcoin-core/qa-assets/raw/main/unit_test_data/script_assets_test.json -o "${DIR_UNIT_TEST_DATA}/script_assets_test.json"
+  fi
+fi
+
+CI_EXEC mkdir -p "${BASE_SCRATCH_DIR}/sanitizer-output/"
+
+if [ "$USE_BUSY_BOX" = "true" ]; then
+  echo "Setup to use BusyBox utils"
+  # tar excluded for now because it requires passing in the exact archive type in ./depends (fixed in later BusyBox version)
+  # ar excluded for now because it does not recognize the -q option in ./depends (unknown if fixed)
+  # shellcheck disable=SC1010
+  CI_EXEC for util in \$\(busybox --list \| grep -v "^ar$" \| grep -v "^tar$" \)\; do ln -s \$\(command -v busybox\) "${BINS_SCRATCH_DIR}/\$util"\; done
+  # Print BusyBox version
+  CI_EXEC patch --help
+fi
+
+# Make sure default datadir does not exist and is never read by creating a dummy file
+if [ "$CI_OS_NAME" == "macos" ]; then
+  echo > "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin"
+else
+  CI_EXEC echo \> \$HOME/.bitcoin
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$NO_DEPENDS" ]; then
+  if [[ $CI_IMAGE_NAME_TAG == *centos* ]]; then
+    # CentOS has problems building the depends if the config shell is not explicitly set
+    # (i.e. for libevent a Makefile with an empty SHELL variable is generated, leading to
+    #  an error as the first command is executed)
+    SHELL_OPTS="LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/dash"
+  else
+    SHELL_OPTS="CONFIG_SHELL="
+  fi
+  CI_EXEC "$SHELL_OPTS" make "$MAKEJOBS" -C depends HOST="$HOST" "$DEP_OPTS" LOG=1
+fi
+if [ "$DOWNLOAD_PREVIOUS_RELEASES" = "true" ]; then
+  CI_EXEC test/get_previous_releases.py -b -t "$PREVIOUS_RELEASES_DIR"
+fi
+
+BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL="--enable-suppress-external-warnings --disable-dependency-tracking"
+if [ -z "$NO_DEPENDS" ]; then
+  BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL="${BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL} CONFIG_SITE=$DEPENDS_DIR/$HOST/share/config.site"
+fi
+if [ -z "$NO_WERROR" ]; then
+  BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL="${BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL} --enable-werror"
+fi
+
+CI_EXEC "ccache --zero-stats --max-size=$CCACHE_SIZE"
+PRINT_CCACHE_STATISTICS="ccache --version | head -n 1 && ccache --show-stats"
+
+if [ -n "$ANDROID_TOOLS_URL" ]; then
+  CI_EXEC make distclean || true
+  CI_EXEC ./autogen.sh
+  CI_EXEC ./configure "$BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL" "$BITCOIN_CONFIG" || ( (CI_EXEC cat config.log) && false)
+  CI_EXEC "make $MAKEJOBS && cd src/qt && ANDROID_HOME=${ANDROID_HOME} ANDROID_NDK_HOME=${ANDROID_NDK_HOME} make apk"
+  CI_EXEC "${PRINT_CCACHE_STATISTICS}"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL="${BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL} --enable-external-signer --prefix=$BASE_OUTDIR"
+
+if [ -n "$CONFIG_SHELL" ]; then
+  CI_EXEC "$CONFIG_SHELL" -c "./autogen.sh"
+else
+  CI_EXEC ./autogen.sh
+fi
+
+CI_EXEC mkdir -p "${BASE_BUILD_DIR}"
+export P_CI_DIR="${BASE_BUILD_DIR}"
+
+CI_EXEC "${BASE_ROOT_DIR}/configure" --cache-file=config.cache "$BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL" "$BITCOIN_CONFIG" || ( (CI_EXEC cat config.log) && false)
+
+CI_EXEC make distdir VERSION="$HOST"
+
+export P_CI_DIR="${BASE_BUILD_DIR}/bitcoin-$HOST"
+
+CI_EXEC ./configure --cache-file=../config.cache "$BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL" "$BITCOIN_CONFIG" || ( (CI_EXEC cat config.log) && false)
+
+set -o errtrace
+trap 'CI_EXEC "cat ${BASE_SCRATCH_DIR}/sanitizer-output/* 2> /dev/null"' ERR
+
+if [[ ${USE_MEMORY_SANITIZER} == "true" ]]; then
+  # MemorySanitizer (MSAN) does not support tracking memory initialization done by
+  # using the Linux getrandom syscall. Avoid using getrandom by undefining
+  # HAVE_SYS_GETRANDOM. See https://github.com/google/sanitizers/issues/852 for
+  # details.
+  CI_EXEC 'grep -v HAVE_SYS_GETRANDOM src/config/bitcoin-config.h > src/config/bitcoin-config.h.tmp && mv src/config/bitcoin-config.h.tmp src/config/bitcoin-config.h'
+fi
+
+if [[ "${RUN_TIDY}" == "true" ]]; then
+  MAYBE_BEAR="bear --config src/.bear-tidy-config"
+  MAYBE_TOKEN="--"
+fi
+
+CI_EXEC "${MAYBE_BEAR}" "${MAYBE_TOKEN}" make "$MAKEJOBS" "$GOAL" || ( echo "Build failure. Verbose build follows." && CI_EXEC make "$GOAL" V=1 ; false )
+
+CI_EXEC "${PRINT_CCACHE_STATISTICS}"
+CI_EXEC du -sh "${DEPENDS_DIR}"/*/
+CI_EXEC du -sh "${PREVIOUS_RELEASES_DIR}"
+
 if [[ $HOST = *-mingw32 ]]; then
   # Generate all binaries, so that they can be wrapped
   make "$MAKEJOBS" -C src/secp256k1 VERBOSE=1
diff --git a/ci/test_run_all.sh b/ci/test_run_all.sh
index 751a4056df7..2284a2903b7 100755
--- a/ci/test_run_all.sh
+++ b/ci/test_run_all.sh
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 
 set -o errexit; source ./ci/test/00_setup_env.sh
 set -o errexit; source ./ci/test/04_install.sh
-set -o errexit; source ./ci/test/05_before_script.sh
-set -o errexit; source ./ci/test/06_script_a.sh
 set -o errexit
 CI_EXEC "${BASE_ROOT_DIR}/ci/test/06_script_b.sh"