Casey, the founder of Ordinals, has issued a statement on their personal social media platform, highlighting that rocktoshi, the founder of Monkey Nodes, was not the primary catalyst for their exploration into the Bitcoin NFT concept and did not contribute significantly to the development of the Ordinals project. Casey recounted experiencing persistent threats, coercion, and abusive emails from rocktoshi for an extended period of months. They affirmed that all parties who engaged with rocktoshi were aware of this continuous threat experience.