ConstitutionDAO Wins First Printing of America’s Founding Document at Auction

ConstitutionDAO Wins First Printing of America’s Founding Document at Auction
NEW YORK — A slapdash alliance of crypto fans just bought the U.S. Constitution.The group known as ConstitutionDAO placed the winning $41 million bid at Sotheby’s auction house Thursday for a first printing of the Constitution, one of only 13 left in existence. The final price will be higher, a Sotheby’s representative told CoinDesk.Sotheby’s refused to reveal the name of the buyer, however in a Twitter Spaces the project’s core developers confirmed their success.The DAO, or decentralized autonomous organization, or perhaps most accurately, an 18,800-person Discord channel, had crowdfunded more than that sum in under a week from over 17,000…