diff --git a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
index adc09c6f6a..6509e80486 100644
--- a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
+++ b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@
             <sha256 value="c717c468bfc91536f1dbc0d98d6116a8e7c49fbaff643ef8710e7505cc450878" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
-      <component group="co.rsk.bitcoinj" name="bitcoinj-thin" version="0.14.4-rsk-15">
-         <artifact name="bitcoinj-thin-0.14.4-rsk-15.jar">
-            <sha256 value="871b008d5b148f066a6e4d46b154a96532e22b7b6faff6e28821fa4e7b078346" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+      <component group="co.rsk.bitcoinj" name="bitcoinj-thin" version="0.14.4-rsk-16">
+         <artifact name="bitcoinj-thin-0.14.4-rsk-16.jar">
+            <sha256 value="53957d6941a882f7aa33188da3dadcf96f15fa2ffd62e9130937eb84e98f11a4" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
-         <artifact name="bitcoinj-thin-0.14.4-rsk-15.pom">
-            <sha256 value="deda61ace1b697c488c8acddbc60fcc55be75df9097c8cd2dad87f8c6afa21f2" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         <artifact name="bitcoinj-thin-0.14.4-rsk-16.pom">
+            <sha256 value="ea7726838385d7694f63622398d871b92a247b83418fe4d6cb9c6f3d5991fd3a" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
       <component group="com.diffplug.durian" name="durian-collect" version="1.2.0">
diff --git a/rskj-core/build.gradle b/rskj-core/build.gradle
index 39b637edda..2afc42feed 100644
--- a/rskj-core/build.gradle
+++ b/rskj-core/build.gradle
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ ext {
             jaxwsRtVer             : '2.3.5',
             picocliVer             : '4.6.3',
 
-            bitcoinjThinVer: '0.14.4-rsk-16-SNAPSHOT',
+            bitcoinjThinVer: '0.14.4-rsk-16',
             rskjNativeVer: '1.3.0',
     ]