BORED is a pseudonymous NFT and gaming entrepreneur behind the Elon Musk parody account @BoredElonMusk, which they started in 2013 inspired by Musk's Hyperloop white paper. They have a professional background in the video game industry and began using Bitcoin around 2013 to 2014 for cross-border transactions, maintaining strict pseudonymity and declining to reveal a real name in any public interview. BORED's Twitter Score is 617 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #178 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 tracked accounts, with 1,571,304 followers as of July 2026 and 52,251 posts.
BORED co-founded Bored Box alongside pseudonymous partner Subtle Rebuttal, launching Ethereum-based NFTs resembling game consoles in May 2022; the project evolved into a Web3 membership storefront where holders earn soulbound boredom points exchangeable for NFTs or physical items. They were also previously associated with an Edison metaverse project. They founded Bored Corp to advise founders across gaming, NFTs, and crypto.
BORED is a self-described Bigcoin whale who became a core community contributor to Bigcoin 2.0 on Abstract Chain in 2025, after the original anonymous founder known as Bigtoshi departed and transferred control of the project, working alongside trader EJR and others to restructure it. They are also affiliated with Bigpool, an 833-piece NFT collection on Abstract Chain that minted at 0.05 ETH, offering holders fractionalized access to a Bigcoin mining operation with monthly $BIG distributions beginning end of May 2025. They also founded Aircade Games, a one-person casual game studio building games with AI tools. BORED has been mentioned by 600 accounts, with 1,290 total mentions.
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BORED draws followers from across the crypto and Web3 space. The accounts that follow BORED include 1,804 founders, 340 angel investors, 1,505 influencers and 40 VCs, among them Balaji, Chris Dixon, vitalik.eth, Marc Andreessen, Laura Shin and ZachXBT.