Imagine running two instances of Bitcoin software concurrently on different machine in the present day, just as satoshi did first time when starting the network. If both instances began mining and purchasing Bitcoin from the current stage, what potential implications, challenges, or opportunities could arise from this novel experiment?
Mining Bitcoin and trying to get if from block rewards, transaction fees is hard if you don't have enough big hashrate and get good reward proportion from a mining pool.
Purchasing Bitcoin is not related to Bitcoin mining and you can buy it with your capital on either centralized exchanges or decentralized exchanges. I don't know what you want to say here but if you can run a Bitcoin full node, and use it to store your bitcoin, and make transactions, it is good for your privacy and security.
Running a Bitcoin full node is different than Bitcoin mining too. You can run a full node while you don't join Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin nodes validate transactions. Bitcoin miners confirm transactions.