Is the Viral Video of a Girl Who Bought 900,000 Bitcoin in 2009 Real?

A 12-second video has recently gone viral on social media in multiple languages, claiming to show a girl buying 900,000 Bitcoin in March 2009.

The clip shows a young woman sitting in front of a computer, speaking in English to the person filming. When asked, "How many Bitcoin do you have?" she responds, "900,000." The number also appears in green text on the black computer screen. Asked whether she plans to keep the coins, she replies, "Imagine if it reaches $100 — that would be crazy."

The video circulated as Bitcoin's price recently surpassed $110,000. If the girl had held onto the coins since 2009, her fortune would now be around $990 billion — roughly equal to the combined wealth of Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and Larry Page, who rank first, second, and fourth on Forbes list of the world's richest people.

But what is the truth behind the clip? Does it really show a girl who bought 900,000 Bitcoin in March 2009?

Signs Show the Viral Video Is AI-Generated

Misbar investigated the video that claims to show a girl buying 900,000 Bitcoin and found evidence suggesting it was either manipulated or created using artificial intelligence.

In the video, the girl holds a computer mouse in her right hand, with a piece of paper visible between her fingers and the mouse. Careful analysis of her arm movement from the fifth second shows that the portion of her hand from the black bracelet to her fingers remains static, unaffected by the motion of her arm — a movement pattern that defies logic.

Misbar’s team also noted that the screen, keyboard, and computer in the video show no visible branding, and the keyboard keys appear without numbers or letters.

A screenshot from the video was analyzed using the AI-detection tools AI or Not and Image Whisperer, both of which indicated a high likelihood that the content was either AI-generated or digitally manipulated.

Further raising doubts, the European Commission notes that from the release of Bitcoin’s first block by “Satoshi Nakamoto” in January 2009 until mid-2011 — when Nakamoto handed over control of the network and source code to Gavin Andresen — only one million Bitcoin had been mined. This makes the existence of 900,000 Bitcoin in March 2009 highly improbable.

Misbar reached out to the original publisher, the account Metal Pay, for confirmation on whether the video was AI-generated but received no direct response.

However, Metal Pay did reply humorously to a user asking in the comments if the video was real or AI-generated. The response included a GIF from the film Doctor Strange and the phrase “From another timeline”, implying the video is “from another timeline.”

While the reply does not explicitly confirm or deny the video’s authenticity, it subtly hints at manipulation. The reference to Doctor Strange — a story in which a neurosurgeon suffers a hand injury, becomes a sorcerer, and gains the ability to manipulate time — serves as an indirect suggestion that the video has indeed been digitally altered.

Bitcoin: The Digital Cryptocurrency

The Bitcoin project first came into public view when the domain Bitcoin.org was registered in August 2008. In January 2009, the first block of the digital cryptocurrency was mined, and the initial Bitcoin software was released, launching the network and creating the first units of the currency. At the time, Bitcoin had no monetary value — it was essentially worth zero dollars. By December 5, 2009, when the first Bitcoin transactions took place, the price of a single coin had not yet reached one dollar. By November 2025, however, Bitcoin’s value had surged past $100,000.

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