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You don't need those things to get Bitcoin. You need those things to stay out of trouble with your government. If your government and financial system is broken it's even easier for you to get Bitcoin because no one is demanding you jump through their tacked-on hoops.

What Bitcoin gives you in this case is that you and I can be in two different broken countries with adversarial governments, but you can I can still transact from around the world without the blessing of our broken governments or their broken banks.