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Re:Fools and their crypto by IncRnd on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:44PM (#16271100)
The picture on the article's page is of a flock of children who are following a person, presumably a pied piper, who has no head and no pipe.

Doing a google image search shows the head was specifically cut off for this page!

Yep. That's the state of cryptocurrencies. A picture is worth a thousand words.

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Re:Fools and their crypto by thisisit on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:05PM (#16271197)
That I guess is a subtle nod to the company Pied Piper in the series Silicon Valley [1].

In the last season one of the characters built an app called "SeeFood", a Shazam for food:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNyi3nAuLb0

The app ended being used at Periscope to detect penis which explains the ending for the website too.

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Re:Fools and their crypto by shaki-dora on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @09:05AM (#16273866)
In case you’re wondering why your comment is all gray: people think you should go to your school and demand your money back if you think „pied piper“ was invented by the TV series.

(Unless you’re not in Europe or its cultural descendants)

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Re:Fools and their crypto by thisisit on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @09:51AM (#16274228)
I know that it is a children's story. What I meant in the comment was that the whole story about food on blockchain and the eventual ending about penis seems to reflect the SeeFood app arc in the TV series. That is why the image was used.

If people thought otherwise then I guess my commenting skills are not that great.

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