user3381: Dan Kaminsky embed a custom message in a block, which reads "BitCoin's new dependency upon [...] BERNANKE". Why did he say that Bitcoin is dependent on the Federal Reserve?

user22: Once upon a time someone used Bitcoin's ability to embed arbitrary text inside a transaction to put an ASCII Art Ben Bernanke into the blockchain. Referring to the fact that current blocks must still reference the Bernanke block as a "dependency" rounds out the joke.

3381: <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Kaminsky" rel="nofollow">Dan Kaminsky</a> embed <a href="http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=BUB3dygQ" rel="nofollow">a custom message</a> in a block, which reads "BitCoin's new dependency upon [...] BERNANKE". Why did he say that Bitcoin is dependent on the Federal Reserve?</p>
 22: <p>Once upon a time someone used Bitcoin's ability to embed arbitrary text inside a transaction to put an <a href="http://pastebin.com/ZqqFEqkc" rel="nofollow">ASCII Art Ben Bernanke</a> into the blockchain. Referring to the fact that current blocks must still reference the Bernanke block as a "dependency" rounds out the joke.</p>
