{"id":1393,"date":"2021-11-19T20:57:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T01:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2021-11-19T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T01:59:07","slug":"constitutiondao-bid-for-the-united-states-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/constitutiondao-bid-for-the-united-states-constitution","title":{"rendered":"ConstitutionDAO Fails to Win the Bid for the First Edition Print Copy of &#8220;The &#8216;Official Edition&#8217; of The United States Constitution&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/constitutiondao-first-edition-print-of-united-states-constitution-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"Constitutiondao First Edition Print Of United States Constitution\" class=\"wp-image-1394\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/constitutiondao-first-edition-print-of-united-states-constitution-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/constitutiondao-first-edition-print-of-united-states-constitution-780x439.jpg 780w, https:\/\/cdn.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/constitutiondao-first-edition-print-of-united-states-constitution-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/constitutiondao-first-edition-print-of-united-states-constitution-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/constitutiondao-first-edition-print-of-united-states-constitution-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption>ConstitutionDAO First Edition Print Of United States Constitution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in its quest to illustrate the capabilities of the People, the ConstitutionDAO\u2014an online group&#8211;has failed to acquire the last privately owned, first edition copy of the U.S. constitution on Sotheby&#8217;s despite raising over $48 million from more than 17.5k users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6GVxlkvJbj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6GVxlkvJbj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ConstitutionDAO (\ud83d\udcdc, \ud83d\udcdc) (@ConstitutionDAO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConstitutionDAO\/status\/1461498841820192771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">November 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, auction records show that the &#8220;The &#8216;Official Edition&#8217; of The United States Constitution&#8221; was won by an anonymous bidder for around $43 million inclusive of fees. It was one of the remaining 13 copies of the first edition, print copies of the defining U.S. constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>While this wasn\u2019t the outcome we hoped for, we still made history tonight with ConstitutionDAO. This is the largest crowdfund for a physical object that we are aware of &#8211; crypto or fiat. We are so incredibly grateful to have done this together with you all and are still in shock that we even got this far.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constitutiondao.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.constitutiondao.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ConstitutionDAO<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, in its quest to illustrate the capabilities of the People, the ConstitutionDAO\u2014an online group&#8211;has failed to acquire the last privately owned, first edition copy of the U.S. constitution on Sotheby&#8217;s despite raising over $48 million from more than 17.5k users. Instead, auction records show that the &#8220;The &#8216;Official Edition&#8217;&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/constitutiondao-bid-for-the-united-states-constitution\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-constitutiondao"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}