Hey Bryan, good to see you blogging here. Off topic, but you should blog about your post black friday experiences; SWC, the chilling police raid, and living in central America would be a great read for more than just the small poker community here.

Any particular reason you prefer storj to its competitors? I own some because I participated in the ICO and can hold the coins on MyEtherWallet, but I preferred Siacoin in the small amount of research I did: more decentralized and better file storage rates for users. And there are others on the horizon like FileCoin (Naval Ravikant will be involved) and Burstcoin (which I know nothing about). I suppose there is room for many in the space, but it would still be nice to invest in the best one.

And if you like the decentralized file storage space, check out Golem, which is like the decentralized computing power version of it. Since you are an old school bitcoin guy who probably prefers PoW to PoS, the idea of renting out computing power should interest you.

As for steem, I generally advise people to just use the site and not buy up Steem or SBD. You'll make more posting here than you would on facebook, twitter, or medium, and you don't need to invest in it to build up a following. There are some annoyances about it: a lot of circle-jerking, absurd payouts for shit content and the like, but you can taylor your feed to your needs and get a lot out of posting here regardless.

Again, welcome to the site.