diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 934647a..5de7e0c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# 0.2.1
+* Improve typespecs to allow for integers as a valid value to encode in RLP.
 # 0.2.0
 * Breaking: added option to encode RLP to either hex strings (`"8055FF"`) or binaries (`<<0x80, 0x55, 0xFF>`). The default is now `:binary`.
 * Added typespecs and additional test coverage through doctests.
diff --git a/lib/ex_rlp.ex b/lib/ex_rlp.ex
index 2a51ded..ffe9fe7 100644
--- a/lib/ex_rlp.ex
+++ b/lib/ex_rlp.ex
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ defmodule ExRLP do
 
   @moduledoc File.read!("#{__DIR__}/../README.md")
 
-  @type t :: nil | [t] | binary()
+  @type t :: nil | binary() | integer() | [t]
 
   @doc """
   Given an RLP structure, returns the encoding as a string.
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ defmodule ExRLP do
     iex> ExRLP.encode(for _ <- 1..60, do: [])
     <<248, 60, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192, 192>>
   """
+  @spec encode(t) :: binary()
   @spec encode(t, keyword()) :: binary()
   def encode(item, options \\ []) do
     item |> Encoder.encode(options)
@@ -98,6 +99,8 @@ defmodule ExRLP do
     iex> ExRLP.decode(<<143, 2, 227, 142, 158, 4, 75, 160, 83, 84, 85, 150, 0, 0, 0, 0>>) |> :binary.decode_unsigned
     15_000_000_000_000_000_000_000_000_000_000_000
   """
+  @spec decode(binary()) :: t
+  @spec decode(binary(), atom()) :: t
   @spec decode(binary(), atom(), keyword()) :: t
   def decode(item, type \\ :binary, options \\ []) do
     item |> Decoder.decode(type, options)
diff --git a/mix.exs b/mix.exs
index 06582e2..3a16bd5 100644
--- a/mix.exs
+++ b/mix.exs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ defmodule ExRLP.Mixfile do
 
   def project do
     [app: :ex_rlp,
-     version: "0.2.0",
+     version: "0.2.1",
      elixir: "~> 1.4",
      description: "Ethereum's Recursive Length Prefix (RLP) encoding",
      package: [