Neil Strauss is a ten-time New York Times bestselling author and journalist who became the first mainstream author to mint a book on Ethereum. Neil Strauss's Twitter Score is 106 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #7,435 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Neil Strauss spent a decade on staff at The New York Times and contributed to Rolling Stone, building a reputation across music journalism and long-form nonfiction before turning to Web3 publishing. His Ethereum-minted title, Survive All Apocalypses: From Machine Uprisings to Bear Markets, was released on December 5, 2021, and was subsequently acquired by LACMA for its permanent collection on February 13, 2023, marking a notable institutional recognition of NFT-based literary work.
Neil Strauss previously served as ghostwriter for Jenkins the Valet, a project connected to the Bored Ape Yacht Club ecosystem, and formerly co-hosted a panel at NFT/LA. For the Jenkins the Valet project, he was compensated in U.S. dollars rather than Ethereum and did not hold a Bored Ape himself. Neil Strauss's account has 119,872 followers as of July 2026 and 1,279 posts, and has been mentioned by 131 accounts a total of 282 times.
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