In the US, legal claims to ownership of securities belong to the very top of the economic food chain, not the individual. The legal framework that allows for this is VERY sophisticated, has proven case law and is unlikely to get rervesed anytime soon. This is mostly due to a change in the UCC section 8 from 1994. See https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/8
Assets (including stocks, bonds, homes, pension funds, ETFs...) are collateralized (unknowingly) by third parties. Meaning, if there were a financial collapse, these third parties would go bankrupt and the legal claims to collateralized assets would go to the very front of the those in line. In othewords, there's no counter party. This is designed to occur (literaly) overnight.
This mattters to Bitcoin because of the ETFs. Anyone who "owns" shares of a Bitcoin ETF, IRA or hold bitcoin in a custodian will lose most if not all value in a financial collapse. Most of which will go to the creditor(s) first in line. This includes Blackrock.
How many here are aware of this?
(Edited for spelling)
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