BTC ecosystem quarrel: Casey vs. Rocktoshi

Author: Jessy, Golden Finance

At 4 a.m. on September 6, Casey, the founder of the Ordinals protocol, took the lead in launching a big fight in the BTC ecosystem.

Casey posted on X that Rocktoshi, who claimed to be the co-founder of Ordinals, was not actually a co-founder, and revealed more details about the two people from the founding of the company to their separation.

One voice, many voices. Then a group of bigwigs in the BTC ecosystem, such as Erin, Leo, Charlie, Ninja, etc., began to publicly accuse Rocktoshi.

Everyone counted Rocktoshi's crimes, including that Rocktoshi had been raising money everywhere under the identity of Ordinals co-founder (but not), and the Node Monkey project was led by Rocktoshi, allowing him to quickly make millions of dollars. And his style of doing things was criticized by everyone, such as unpleasant cooperation with him, fraud, deception, intimidation and threats, etc.

The targets are all pointed at Rocktoshi, and the project Node Monkey led by him also fell. In the face of these accusations, Rocktoshi responded briefly, saying "I am not a liar."

One voice, many voices

First, Casey, the founder of the Ordinals protocol, published a blog post and synchronized it to Twitter in the early morning of this morning, entitled "How Ordinals was created."

This is a response to Rocktoshi's claim that he was the co-founder of Ordinals on X two days ago. In a tweet two days ago, Rocktoshi also said that before Casey joined, I was already studying how to implement NFT on Bitcoin.

In Casey's article "How Ordinals was created", Casey directly denied that Rocktoshi was a co-founder, and said that Rocktoshi did not contribute anything to the concept of Ordinals, including code design.

Casey also said that Casey and Rocktoshi were personal friends, and that Rocktoshi was one of the four co-founders of Ordinals Corporation, but the company was dissolved three months later and had nothing to do with Ordinary.

In addition, shortly after the establishment of Ordcorp, Casey felt that Rocktoshi was unreliable. "I told him that I didn't want to work with him anymore, but he was still unreasonable and finally asked for $5 million in exchange for his equity in the company."

After the company was finally resolved, Rocktoshi continued to send Casey threatening, insulting and emotional emails for several months.

Casey also said that he learned that many people in the Bitcoin ecosystem had experienced similar long-term threats, deceptions, manipulations and frauds by Rocktoshi. "Rocktoshi used his close relationship with me to integrate himself into the ecosystem, and I regret not speaking out sooner like others."

At present, in addition to Casey, there are some other people's condemnations as follows:

@NFTJoona: Said on X that he had reached a simple agreement transaction with Rocktoshi, and one day Rocktoshi blackmailed him to cancel the agreement transaction and threatened to sue him.

@cbspears: Said on X in January this year that Rocktoshi began to harass him and threatened to sue him about half a year ago, and that his so-called "revelations" were groundless.

He also said, "I am worried that he will use the millions of dollars of revenue from the Nodemonkes project mint and his growing influence in the Ordinals ecosystem to continue to manipulate and attack others. "This passage also clearly indicates that Rocktoshi has earned millions of dollars in node candidate projects.

@TO: Said on X that in the past month, he has experienced Rocktoshi's deception and manipulation, as well as his indifference to the harm he has caused to others. Several members of his community (including founders in his portfolio) contacted him and relayed their experiences of receiving messages directly from Rocktoshi, "which are intended to tarnish my reputation and interfere with his business relationships."

@LeonidasNFT : Rocktoshi has launched numerous projects under various pseudonyms in the past 18 months.

However, no evidence was disclosed for these accusations, not even chat records. Rocktoshi only responded to the above accusations with "I'm not a liar, everything I said is true, Casey should stop personal attacks and defamation. ”

When the market is bad, there are always more quarrels

Perhaps, the above accusations have always existed. When the market is good, everyone is busy making money, dealing with various affairs, and developing projects. They don’t care about these quarrels that do not involve core interests.

And this time Rocktoshi directly claimed that he was the co-founder of Ordinals, which was considered to be touching Casey’s cake. “There can only be one god”, the title of the founder is indeed valuable and easy to bluff. And the current position of Ordinals in the Bitcoin ecosystem also determines that this title has an important position in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

As for whether Rocktoshi has made any contribution to Ordinals, in fact, only a few core people know, perhaps only Rocktoshi and Casey know.