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Someone Just Inscribed the U.S. Constitution onto the Bitcoin Blockchain
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An unknown actor etched the full text of the U.S. Constitution onto the Bitcoin blockchain in a $83 transaction, permanently embedding it within the network.
Key facts
- An unknown actor etched the full text of the U.S. Constitution onto the Bitcoin blockchain in a $83 transaction, permanently embedding it within the network
- That changed with Bitcoin Core v30, released in mid-2025, which stripped away the byte limit and the one-OP_RETURN-per-transaction rule
- The Ordinals protocol, which launched in 2023, pushed the practice further by inscribing images, audio, and code into the witness data of Taproot transactions
- At 44.4 kilobytes, the transaction is far larger than a standard Bitcoin transfer, its bulk comes from the Constitution’s full text, beginning with “We the People of the United States,” written
Summary
An unknown actor etched the full text of the U.S. An unknown actor broadcast a Bitcoin transaction Thursday evening embedding the full text of the U.S. Constitution onto the blockchain, permanently and without the possibility of removal. The transaction, confirmed at 8:25 p.m. At 44.4 kilobytes, the transaction is far larger than a standard Bitcoin transfer, its bulk comes from the Constitution’s full text, beginning with “We the People of the United States,” written into an OP_RETURN output field and recorded on-chain. OP_RETURN is a script opcode that allows anyone to attach arbitrary data to a transaction.