How a group of cryptocurrency enthusiasts almost procured a first printing of the U.S. Constitution.
A dozen or so friends from the Internet gathered recently at Sotheby’s in Manhattan to buy a first printing of the U.S. Constitution . The group, who called themselves ConstitutionDAO, had just spent a week raising millions of dollars on Twitter, TikTok, and Discord from anonymous screen names: recent immigrants, college dropouts, the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of someone who fought in the American Revolution. They raised four million in the first twenty-four hours.
On the third floor, several of the group’s “core contributors”—the leaders of the leaderless organization, who promised to return everyone’s money if the group didn’t win—had assembled in a climate-controlled gallery to inspect the document, which was encased in glass. “We’re talking to museums about where would be best to host it,” Nicole Ruiz, who wore a long plaid coat, said. She explained that the donors wouldn’t actually own the document, but would help determine its future. “The whole group gets to vote!” she said.
Upstairs, the group filed into the saleroom, where, in a few hours, a Sotheby’s rep would bid on their behalf by phone. “To have access like this is insane,” MacKenzie Burnett, a twenty-eight-year-old tech C.E.O., said.
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