Say you need to purchase an early printing of the US Constitution, however you’ve solely bought a pair of bucks. Usually, you’d be out of luck, however possibly not as we speak: over the past week, a collective has formed to elevate sufficient cash to purchase a rare early printing of the Constitution at public sale, elevating cash from anybody who desires to chip in on-line.
The doc is anticipated to promote at Sotheby’s for as excessive as $20 million — what would appear to be an insurmountable value for a crowdfunding initiative. And but, someway, the collective has raised $27 million to date. They usually nonetheless have greater than 24 hours to go.
There’s so much happening right here, so I’m simply going to break it down piece by piece:
The public sale is being held on Thursday at 6:30PM ET. Good luck to whoever is bidding towards the collective will of the web.