IMHO, the key is to restore power to individuals from the centralized institutions that have parasitized all of us to gain their oppressive power.  DLTs are only part of that endeavor, and alone will simply be coopted by the financial institutions that presently exert control.

Means of production in every industry are being decentralized today at the bleeding edge of technological advance, from agriculture to manufacturing.  By adopting individually the decentralized mechanisms that make the most sense in our personal situation, we decrease the parasitism of our wealth and power that creates oppressive tyranny.

We wouldn't even know that JA had been arrested without that decentralizing of the media by citizen journalists, for example.  We may not presently have the power to secure his liberty, or even his life, today, but we never will be able to protect any - or all - of us unless we take back our power from the tyrants feeding off our production by adopting nascent technological advance across all industries burgeoning today.

It is the concatenation of decentralization that most creates a robust mechanism to resist tyranny.  Any single person, like JA, or mechanism, like DLTs, is able to be oppressed and controlled via the centralized institutions that parasitize us all.  That centralization is the very weakness that prevents control of the breadth of decentralization.  Institutions centralize our wealth and power via parasitization, and project that power in mechanisms focused by the corrupt individual agents of those institutions.  That utterly prevents broad spectrum responses to decentralization across all fields of human endeavor.

We are all animals.  It is not to our benefit to further decrease our power, but rather to restore it to us from whom it has been parasitized by inhuman institutions controlled by individual agents.  We do that by making what we need ourselves as our situation indicates, by being journalists ourselves, and by making our own means of transacting amongst one another that is resistant to parasitism - DLTs.  

Nature is messy, redundant, and robust exactly because of the decentralization of the web of life.  Centralized institutions are neat, efficient, and fragile because they are able to specialize and focus on one particular vector for wealth/power.  To best defeat tyrants wielding institutional parasitic power against us, we must adopt the redundancy and powerful decentralization natural ecosystems reveal as the secret of their robust ability to thrive under all conditions.