Blockstack at the Decentralized Web Summit

I was unable to attend, but did watch many of the speakers live via youtube.<p>One thing I noticed was that many of these &quot;wonderful decentralized technologies&quot; were pay-to-play. Pay more, use some and pay more.<p>Yet the whole idea of a decentralized and&#x2F;or distributed web should abstract the idea of money away to a point that it shouldn&#x27;t cost anything to use. IPFS seems to fit that bill tremendously well. Yet other technologies are &quot;Different way to pay.... With a BLOCKCHAIN!!!111&quot;

Good recap summary of the conference. &quot;in the time between launching your browser and going to facebook, how many parties are you blindly trusting?&quot; ... &quot; there are at least 10 hidden entities involved when you open a browser and sign into @facebook&quot;. This is one reason I am trying to wean myself off of corporation provided social media and instead using GNU Social.