Image by Khusen Rustamov from PixabayAn interview with one of the most powerful women in blockchain and the key to cracking mass adoption of decentralized social media.On her Twitter account Crystal Rose Pierce, CEO of Make Sense Labs has dubbed herself “the First Lady of Crypto” — perhaps an allusion to her husband Brock Pierce who ran as an independent candidate in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. Brock is back to focusing on blockchain it seems and has indicated he does not intend to run again, but Crystal Rose is a force to be reckoned with in decentralized technology, listed by Forbes among the “Top 10 Women in Blockchain.”Pierce believes that blockchain is the bright future of social media and has raised over $30 million in institutional capital before completing a successful token sale for SENSE Digital, maker of Sense Chat.We spoke with Pierce concerning her new project and the future of Social Media on blockchain.“Sense Chat is at the forefront of the movement toward creator-owned platforms,” Pierce said.“It is a social messenger where users are treated like participants and everyone can earn rewards for their contributions, unlike platforms that capitalize on the data of their users.”SENSE explained in a statement: “The project was founded originally in 2015 as a multi-platform messaging-connector service to enable users to give and get advice and earn Sensay points. The original platform collected huge amounts of user data. Now, Sensay has evolved from a company that collects user data to a platform that protects it called MakeSenseLabs.”Unfortunate news for users of the platform in 2016 but Pierce assured us that the company has repented its data-collecting behavior and holds data protection in a special place within their core mission.“Back in 2016, we were collecting all of this user data — that many people believed…