Author: TechFlow
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What the crypto industry lacks the least is various interest disputes, and when the market is at a low point, such disputes are often more likely to be brought to the table.
In the early hours of this morning, a fierce battle broke out in the BTC ecosystem:
Ordinals founder Casey published an article on his Twitter and blog, pointing out that rocktoshi (@rocktoshi21), who claimed to be the co-founder of Ordinals a few days ago, was not actually a co-founder, and revealed more details about the two from the founding of the company to their parting ways.
Subsequently, a group of bigwigs in the BTC ecosystem, such as Erin, Leo, Charlie, and Ninja (friends who play the BTC ecosystem should be familiar with him), began to publicly support Casey, and each revealed negative information about Rocktoshi (hereinafter referred to as Ishimoto Satoshi), including but not limited to fraud, intimidation, and unpleasant working relationships.
There are also revelations that the well-known project Node Monkey on Ordinals is actually led by Satoshi Ishimoto, and he personally made millions of dollars in quick profits.
As the news came out, the price of Node Monkey fell.
At present, we don’t know what kind of conflicts of interest have occurred between these bigwigs and Satoshi Ishimoto, and there is no way to verify the authenticity of these revelations; we can only say that Satoshi Ishimoto has been attacked by many people, and the assets of related projects may be affected.
We quickly compiled various information about this fierce battle for your reference.
Ordinals joint creation title dispute
The public cause of the whole quarrel may be traced back to a tweet from Satoshi Ishimoto himself two days ago.
Originally, the name rocktoshi was not particularly famous, but the day before yesterday he publicly declared on Twitter that he was one of the co-founders of the Bitcoin Ordinals project, and said, "Before Casey joined, I had been studying how to implement NFT on Bitcoin."
The meaning of this declaration is self-explanatory. To put it bluntly, I am worthy of the title of "Ordinals co-founder" and I am quite capable, and my level may be no worse than Casey.
You may ask, is it really that important to fight for a title, just to prove yourself?
Title is extremely important in the crypto industry where there are many new and forgotten people. The title of a position in a successful project in the past can often be the key to whether you will be included in the next group.
But as we all know, Casey is the founder of Ordinals in everyone's mind. We have no way of guessing the motives of Ishimoto's remarks, but the effect is obviously to make himself more noticeable in the controversy.
Regardless of whether Ishimoto Satoshi was really standing up for himself or trying to discredit him, these remarks obviously did not make Casey, the true founder of Ordinals, feel comfortable.
Early this morning, Casey also published a blog post and synced it to Twitter, titled "How Ordinals was founded."
But it is obvious that the title has other intentions, and the content of the article can be completely regarded as a denial of "Satoshi Ishimoto's claim to be the co-founder of Ordinals."
Casey said that Satoshi Ishimoto made no contribution to the conception of Ordinals, including the code design, and pointed out that Satoshi Ishimoto's possible contribution was to correct typos in the code repository.
As for the title of co-founder of Ordinals, Casey feels that it is a pure force-feeding.
Casey previously started a small company called Ordinals Corporation, but it was dissolved in less than three months. In this company, Satoshi Ishimoto was indeed a so-called "co-founder".
But this company has nothing to do with Ordinals in Bitcoin now. It was just a company founded with a small concept. If you insist, Ishimoto Satoshi is just a co-founder of this small company, not a co-founder of the current Ordinals protocol.
If the story ends here, it would not be too harmful, but Casey also revealed more information to publicly cut ties with Satoshi Ishimoto:
“Rocktoshi became unreliable. I told him I didn’t want to work with him anymore, but he continued to be unreasonable and finally made a crazy demand for $5 million in exchange for his shares in the company… Even after we finally resolved to dissolve ordinarys, he continued to send me threatening, demanding, insulting, and emotionally appealing emails for several months.”
It was a clear public accusation and criticism by name.
The community rallies
Casey also said that many people in the ecosystem have dealt with Rocktoshi, and everyone he has talked to has had similar experiences of being threatened, deceived, manipulated, and deceived for a long time.
This made Ishimoto Satoshiki a target of collective criticism.
Later, Casey also posted the negative information publicly revealed by various bigwigs in the Bitcoin ecosystem, pushing Satoshi Ishimoto to the forefront.
For example, Charlie @cbspears, the maintainer of Ordinals Hub, publicly posted in January this year that "Rocktoshi has been harassing me, trying to blackmail me, and threatening to sue me for the past 6 months";
The following sentence is a bombshell, although its authenticity is unknown:
“I am concerned that he will use the millions of dollars of proceeds from Nodemonkes project mint and his growing influence in the Ordinals ecosystem to continue to manipulate and attack others.”
What this means is that Satoshi Ishimoto and Node Monkey may have a conflict of interest.
Another @LeonidasNFT partially confirmed this interest relationship, saying that "Rocktoshi has launched many projects under various pseudonyms in the past 18 months. Take Nodemonkes as an example. It is objectively a very good series of Ordinals (NFT on Bitcoin)... It will work well with or without Rocktoshi's participation."
Trevor.btc, GP of Bitcoin Frontier Fund and CEO of NinjaAlerts, also publicly stated that he had personally experienced Rocktoshi’s deception and manipulation. He said that remaining silent would only allow this behavior to continue, which could hurt those with fewer resources and less visibility.
Another community leader, Joona (@NFTJoona), directly posted rocktoshi’s chat history and said that they had a simple transaction, but then rock canceled the transaction and started blackmailing him.
It can be seen that Ishimoto directly called the other party a liar and threatened to take legal action in a tough tone. More revelations show that Ishimoto said that if he had to use his lawyer, he would charge Joona $1,600 per hour.
A few words from one person may not explain the problem, but a group of people attacking together to a certain extent confirms what Casey said before, "intimidation, deception, manipulation and deception."
The world is in turmoil, all for profit
As of now, the authenticity of the fight between Casey and others against rocktoshi has not been determined.
In the face of this public opinion offensive, Rocktoshi simply responded lightly:
"I am not a liar. Everyone who knows me knows that. Including Casey. Every word I say is true. I am relieved to say this publicly. To Casey: I think you should calm down and stop with the personal attacks and ad hominem attacks."
Who is right or wrong, or who touched whose cake, may not be that important anymore.
The world is bustling with people, all for profit; the world is bustling with people, all for profit. That is probably because the interests of former comrades were not agreed upon, and the community of interests began to turn against each other.
This ancient saying once appeared in "Historical Records". In fact, there is another saying that is even more thought-provoking:
When the granaries are full, people know etiquette; when they have enough food and clothing, they know honor and disgrace.
The big guys have had their fill and started quarreling over honor and disgrace. When will they be able to let the leeks have their fill?
