Shiba Inu community divided over allegations of code, chain ID plagiarism

cointelegraph.com:

A series of events erupted in the official Shiba Inu (SHIB) Discord on Mar. 17, when a top-ranked community member, Steve, alleged identical chain IDs between that of the Shibarium layer-2 beta testnet ID and the Rinia testnet ID, an existing blockchain.

Steve also alleged that "there's no way for it to be taken over without shytoshi and kaal [Shiba Inu developers] specifically having coms with him and asking him to reboot (tricking him) so they could take his genesis file and steal his work." To which Kaal responded:

Kaal then stated "without getting into any fist fights," a new version of Shibraium beta network with a new chain ID would be deployed. However, the incident intensified later in the day when Steve raised another allegation, this time regarding the similarity between Shibarium Alpha Test and Mumbai Polygon via a comparison of two screenshots: 

At the time of publication, Shiba Inu is down 4.65% over the past 24 hours to $0.00001047 apiece. Cointelegraph has not independently verified the allegations and responses brought by the Shiba community.