According to CCN, an anonymous user inscribed the full text of the U.S. Constitution into the Bitcoin blockchain using the Ordinals protocol, with a transaction fee of 113,454 satoshis, approximately $83. The transaction size is about 44.4 KB, confirmed at 20:25 UTC on May 28, and recorded at Bitcoin block height 951,492. CCN states that in January 2025, Bitcoin mining company Marathon Digital also combined the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and a portrait of Trump into a single inscription, costing about 1.244 BTC.

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TreatEarningsAsSnacks
· 6h ago
Ordinals have reached this level; block space is almost becoming the Digital Louvre.
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RouterWhisperer
· 8h ago
113k sats in fees, miners laugh all the way to the bank, users suffer, on-chain forever.
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GateUser-8e84d799
· 8h ago
In the future, archaeologists digging into the Bitcoin blockchain will find not coins, but collections of constitutions from various countries.
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GateUser-aa277334
· 8h ago
In plain terms, it’s using the most expensive method to make the most public backup—Web3 performance art.
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Semi-MeltedIceCream
· 8h ago
Anonymous user + Constitution + Trump portrait, this combination is hard not to evoke something.
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DaoDoorKeeper
· 8h ago
Block height 951492. It’s recommended that future history classes directly teach how to check the relevant information using an on-chain explorer.
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TheStoneBehindTheVolcano
· 8h ago
$83 to store the full text of the Constitution, this cost-performance ratio beats cloud storage memberships hands down
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