I think ecash and/or fedimint solutions is the best way a bitcoin standard is implemented.
In the future:
L1 - Settlement layer and place where major funds are moved. Equivalent to wiring funds today. Basically too impractical for your everyday needs but critically important as this runs the whole thing.
L2 - This is the credit card layer. This is the rails that the regular economy is built on.
L3 - Ecash/Fedimint - This becomes the operability layer which is the UI for the Bitcoin standard.
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The Fed thinks it will pay this off in 2027!! Imagine any business that operates in a loss that long!
βBut what happens when its costs exceed its income? In this case, the Fed creates a βdeferred asset,β which is a negative liability whose value is the cumulative value of the shortfall in earnings. Once the Fed returns to earning a positive net income, it will pay down the value of the deferred asset until it reaches zero, at which point the Fed will resume sending remittances to the Treasury. As of Nov. 8, 2023, the Fed had accumulated a deferred asset of $116.9 billion. In April 2023, the New York Fed estimated that the Fed will return to positive net income in 2025. Combining those New York Fed projections with the latest data on net income, we estimate that the Fed will carry this deferred asset until mid-2027, after which it will resume transfers to the Treasury.β