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> Bitcoin is completely autonomous

If we're counting the footprint of Visa's 19,500 employees [1], we'd have to start counting the footprint of every Bitcoin miner and ASIC manufacturer. Which is (a) silly and (b) unlikely to affect a difference of orders of magnitude.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc.

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But visa doesn't provide most of the functions of bitcoin infrastructure. Visa does need to hold the balance of my account. Visa does need or make available all of my equity worth of assets for me to transfer. Visa does not custody my assets. This is literally apple to oranges (or visa to bitcoin)

> the footprint of every Bitcoin miner

Do they have 1000s of office all around the world with 100s of thousands working in offices and branches like banking industry?

> Do they have 1000s of office all around the world with 100s of thousands working in offices and branches like banking industry?

Banking does a lot more than payments. Most people working at banks do not work on payments.

Based off of current GPU availability (which isnt mining bitcoin per se but is) does cover coins which are comparable) I would say no, Bitcoin probably has more physical locations and more people involved

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