According to Odaily Planet Daily, Casey, the founder of Ordinals, posted on the X platform that rocktoshi, the founder of NodeMonkey, was not the reason why he started researching Bitcoin NFT, and he did not contribute any meaningful ideas to Ordinals.

Casey further stated that rocktoshi had been sending him threatening, blackmailing, and insulting emails for months. Many people in the ecosystem have dealt with rocktoshi, and everyone they talked to had experienced similar long-term threats.