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Pushkin. From Pushkin Industries, this is Deep Background, the show where we explore the stories behind the stories in the news.

Today's episode explores a fascinating story that combined two interests that I have.

You may have heard about it.

A few weeks ago, an original printed copy of the draft Constitution of the United States

from 1787 went up for sale at Sotheby's.

The auction made national news, but not for the reasons you might think.

The actual copy of the Constitution was not all that rare, though there weren't very many

that remained on the market.

What was newsworthy was that a group called the Constitution Dow, or a decentralized

autonomous organization, came together over social media over a very, very brief period of time

to crowd fund tens of millions of dollars for the specific purpose of purchasing this copy of the Constitution at auction.

Now, as it turned out, the Dow did not win the auction.

But the whole event did a lot to raise public consciousness about DAOs,

which are an innovative new technology that nobody can exactly decide about.

Are they progressive? Are they regressive? Are they libertarian? Are they anti-racist?

Mark Cuban was quoted as calling them the ultimate combination of capitalism and progressivism,

and I will leave it to you to figure out what that means. But I've been on a

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