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Anonymous User Inscribes Full U.S. Constitution on Bitcoin Blockchain

An anonymous user permanently inscribed the full U.S. Constitution on the Bitcoin blockchain at block height 951,492 using the Ordinals protocol. The inscription (preamble, seven articles and 27 amendments) was encoded as text and cost roughly $83 (113,454 satoshis) in fees. The piece underscores a growing use of Bitcoin as a decentralized archival layer rather than only a monetary network, and reignites debates in the Bitcoin community about non-financial data clogging blocks and pushing fees higher. Market impact is indirect: the action highlights alternative demand drivers for blockspace and ongoing trade-offs between utility and transaction-costs, but the article does not point to immediate price effects for Bitcoin.

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