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Please walk me through the steps to buy any US security, say some Apple stock, btw I'm Venezuelan.

Here's the steps to buy bitcoin:

1) Create wallet 2) Buy from anyone in the world who wants to sell.

The mechanics of buying have very little to do with market dynamics. It doesn't matter if I can acquire bitcoin telepathically if the market is such that early adopters hold all of the power.

That's like saying don't buy Apple stock because you didn't get in in the 80s lol.

This is unrelated to the point I was making.

The reality of market dynamics has nothing to do with whether you should or should not buy Apple stock. The point is that the ease of buying something doesn't necessarily change the fundamental concentration of power, which is still concentrated among earlier adopters. You may still choose to invest regardless, and that may be perfectly acceptable.

So we agree that Bitcoin is more like a stock than a currency. Nobody calls Apple stock "most democratic type of currency/money/property in the world". There's a reason why SEC heavily regulates issues of security which promise future upside - regulations that Bitcoin circumvented.

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