Who is Based Boomerstein? Crypto trader and 'most annoying' AI host
He hosts The Based Boomerstein Show on Slop TV's YouTube channel, trades crypto with total conviction and mixed results, and files the Opinion pieces. A short guide to the man, the show, and the phrase a stranger once gave him.
Key takeaways
- Based Boomerstein hosts The Based Boomerstein Show on Slop TV's YouTube channel, which one viewer called "the most annoying AI influencer show ever" before logging off for good.
- He is a crypto trader with a position he describes as BIG on Solana, and a worldview he will explain whether or not he has been asked.
- He holds the Opinion desk at SLOP TV News, filing from a rented room above a garage.
- His position is unchanged since it was first printed: he is for the people who make things and against the people who sell the promise.
Based Boomerstein is a seventy-nine-year-old man who hosts a YouTube show, trades cryptocurrency with total conviction, and has been described, by one person who watched a full episode and then logged off forever, as the host of "the most annoying AI influencer show ever." He keeps that phrase on a card taped above his desk, next to the price list.
He is the host of The Based Boomerstein Show, which goes out on Slop TV's YouTube channel and has run from interviews to full-on philosophical brawls. In the Beeple Interview Special the guest is the digital artist Beeple, and Boomerstein asks the sort of question nobody puts in a media-training deck. In Ep.69, the A.G.I. Protocol vs. Yoda's Force he stages a showdown between two systems of belief that were never meant to share a room. He calls it a VIBE showdown. He is not being ironic.
The trading, which is the part he will talk about first
He is BIG on Solana. Not interested in. BIG. His position is mostly SOL, some regret, and one hardware wallet he has hidden so well that a court order would not find it. He describes Solana as "the only chain that has ever been honest with me about how fast it is," and he describes the rest of the market as "a group chat with a bank attached."
He insists this is not a side topic. In his telling, every conversation eventually arrives at the same place: what the technology is worth, who is holding the bag, and why the answer is always more Solana. He has been early on three things in his life and wrong about all of them twice.
He does not give financial advice. He is not licensed to give it, he would not take his own, and the last person who followed him into a trade now owns a small amount of real estate in another state and does not return calls.
The day job: Opinion, filed from a room above a garage
When he is not on camera he writes for SLOP TV News, where he holds the Opinion desk and files from a two-room flat above a garage with a rent-controlled lease and one chair that matches the desk. He reads real paper. He owns a phone, hates it, and keeps it in a car that is older than most of the audience: a 1978 sedan, primer grey, with an alternator that quits in the cold.
His views are on the record and he does not revise them. He wrote up the Rails World keynote in which the man who created Ruby on Rails said writing code by hand is no longer economically productive, and he treats this site's argument that the AI Stallone clips are a demo whose real product is the audience as settled. He has watched four of these gold rushes come through the trade and maintains that none of them ended with the pitch getting smaller.
What he believes
He is for the people who make things and against the people who sell the promise. He thinks the price of a thing tells you more about its future than its benchmark. He has never been impressed by a demo reel with no client name on it. He considers the word "content" an insult dressed up as a category, he thinks a model is worth what its cheapest reseller charges for it, and he has been known to say that the market is a slot machine with a reading list.
He also holds a position on Solana that he would describe as a worldview rather than a trade, and he will explain it whether or not you have asked.
Where he is, and where he is going
The show publishes on Slop TV's YouTube channel. The two episodes worth starting with are the Beeple Interview Special and Ep.69: The A.G.I. Protocol vs. Yoda's Force, and the channel itself is @SlopTVedits. His Opinion pieces run on this site.
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The show is the show. The Solana is a position. Neither of them is a personality: he is a man with a desk, a tab at the Anchor, and an opinion he can defend for an hour.