{"id":46333,"date":"2021-07-19T18:05:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=46333"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:52:09","slug":"documentary-filmmakers-behind-vitalik-buterin-raise-1-9-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/documentary-filmmakers-behind-vitalik-buterin-raise-1-9-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary filmmakers behind Vitalik Buterin raise $1.9 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crowdfunding campaign for a documentary about the Ethereum cryptocurrency and its co-founder Vitalik Buterin raised $1.9 million in three days on the Mirror platform.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And that\u2019s a wrap. 984.16 ETH raised for the film. 31.08 ETH to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gitcoin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@gitcoin<\/a> grants. 20.72 ETH to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Carbonfundorg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Carbonfundorg<\/a>. THANK YOU to everyone who supported, and congratulations to our new producers. Now let\u2019s go make a movie! See the complete set of credits here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qOcezAOj4R\">https:\/\/t.co\/qOcezAOj4R<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1K6fVEGaO8\">pic.twitter.com\/1K6fVEGaO8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ethereum: The Infinite Garden (@EthereumFilm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EthereumFilm\/status\/1416174906274766848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"\u00abutf-8\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The premiere of the film titled Ethereum: The Infinite Garden is planned for winter 2023. It is being produced by Optimist.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraising target was 750 ETH (about $1.37 million at the time of writing). 662 contributors donated 1035.96 ETH.<\/p>\n<p>The film&#8217;s most generous contributors will be credited in the credits. They will also receive non-fungible tokens.<\/p>\n<p>The funds raised will be allocated as follows:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>95% \u2014 for the film&#8217;s production budget;<\/li>\n<li>3% \u2014 for Gitcoin grants to support Ethereum open-source projects;<\/li>\n<li>2% \u2014 donations to a fund for reducing global carbon emissions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Earlier in May 2021, Ethereum&#8217;s rise above $3,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-tops-3000-pushing-vitalik-buterin-to-billionaire-status\">made Buterin a billionaire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crowdfunding campaign for a documentary about Ethereum and its co-founder Vitalik Buterin raised $1.9 million in three days on Mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[53,1331,46,200],"class_list":["post-46333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crowdfunding","tag-culture-and-art","tag-ethereum","tag-vitalik-buterin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46335,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46333\/revisions\/46335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}