you’re right that there are geographic restrictions to what stocks people can own.

i hope this changes over time, but it may be many years or even decades before everyone has access to public equities in the way they have access to bitcoin.

stocks

Do you own any public stocks?

Voted for no.

I still don't know if I am better off because I completely skipped tradfi or not when it comes to "investing" / caring about my future more / lowering my time preference. 

However, I still have plans to buy some MSTR or RIOT shares (or other public bitcoin mining companies); just for the sake of getting some "tradfi experience".

For example, I realized stocks are not available everywhere. I can't just download any neobroker app and expect that I can buy any stock from there. At least that's what I found out when I last looked into it iirc. Please correct me if I am wrong. 