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| STORJ Price: | $0.29 | | Volume: | $13.0 M | | All Time High: | $3.99 | | Market Cap: | $0.1 B |
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| Circulating Supply: | 406,473,379 |
| Exchanges: | 48
| | Total Supply: | 424,999,998 |
| Markets: | 64
| | Max Supply: | 424,999,998 |
| Pairs: | 60
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The price of #STORJ today is $0.29 USD.
The lowest STORJ price for this period was $0, the highest was $0.290, and the current live price for one STORJ coin is $0.28965.
The all-time high STORJ coin price was $3.99.
Use our custom price calculator to see the hypothetical price of STORJ with market cap of BTC or other crypto coins. |
The code for Storj is also #STORJ.
Storj is 7.7 years old. |
The current market capitalization for Storj is $117,735,592.
Storj is ranked #213 out of all coins, by market cap (and other factors). |
The trading volume is large today for #STORJ.
Today's 24-hour trading volume across all exchanges for Storj is $13,037,777. |
| The circulating supply of STORJ is 406,473,379 coins, which is 96% of the maximum coin supply. |
What is Decentralized Cloud Storage
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NEM and IoDLT — Using Tardigrade to Accelerate MongoDB Snapshot Distribution and Storage
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Remote but Not Alone
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Managing Remote Teams
Managing a remote team might be an entirely new concept for you. Because of COVID-19, many of us are working from home full-time, for the first time, and will be doing that for the foreseeable future. At Storj Labs, most of our team is already remote — we have employees in 26 different states and 13 different countries, so remote work and managing remote teams isn’t a new concept for us. We currently have three satellite offices, but coming into the office is optional. With that said, we’d like to share what we’ve learned over the years of managing remote teams with people who may be relatively new to the concept because of the pandemic.What is Remote First? You may have heard a lot about remote-first teams recently. In case you don’t know what that means, we’ll explain. Remote first means that the company’s organization complements working in remote environments. All information is shared online. There are processes to ensure that remote employees are not unintentionally treated as second-class citizens. All meetings take place over video chat with the ability to record if needed, even if the majority of attendees are in the same office — Slack, Zoom, and confluence are go-to tools in our remote-first workplace. You can read more about remote-first work cultures in a previous blog in this series. Here are a few examples of some challenges remote managers might face, as well as solutions.Challenge #1:...
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Relationship Building Over Zoom
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How to Maintain Productivity in a Remote Environment
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Remote-first Versus Partially Remote Work Cultures
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General Availability for Tardigrade is Here
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