Full U.S. Constitution inscribed onto Bitcoin blockchain via OP_RETURN transaction
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Summary
An anonymous user embedded the full text of the U.S. Constitution into the Bitcoin blockchain via a single transaction on May 28. The transaction used an OP_RETURN output to store 44.4 kilobytes of data, costing 113,454 satoshis (~$83.41) in fees. This was made possible by Bitcoin Core v30, which removed the previous 80-byte limit and the one-OP_RETURN-per-transaction restriction, enabling larger data inscriptions on the network.
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The transaction cost 113,454 satoshis, about $83.41 in fees, and was processed quickly by mining pool SpiderPool.
OP_RETURN outputs are provably unspendable and exist only to store information.
Bitcoin Core v30 removed the prior 80-byte limit and the one-OP_RETURN-per-transaction rule, enabling larger inscriptions.
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