UFD as a Trojan Horse for Bitcoin Adoption
UFD is a Trojan horse for Bitcoin adoption, but not in a rhetorical or ideological sense. It is a Trojan horse in a strictly mathematical sense.
It does not enter the conversation saying “use Bitcoin“. It enters saying “fix the measurement“.
Once someone accepts that prices are a form of measurement, and that any valid measurement requires a fixed denominator, the rest follows by logical elimination rather than persuasion.
The sequence is unavoidable.
If the current unit of account has a variable denominator, it is invalid as a measurement. If it is invalid as a measurement, it cannot reliably coordinate an economy. If we need a unit of account with a fixed denominator, it must be scarce, non expandable and independently verifiable. When you search for such a reference in the real world, only one candidate remains.
At that point, Bitcoin is not being promoted. It simply appears.
This is what makes UFD such an effective Trojan horse. It does not carry ideology, tribal identity or political messaging. It carries a ruler. Anyone who accepts the ruler must accept the consequences of measuring with it.
There is an additional elegance to this approach. UFD does not require Bitcoin to be adopted as a medium of exchange, an investment or a cultural symbol. It only requires Bitcoin to function as a neutral reference for measurement.
This dramatically lowers resistance.
History shows that societies already accept the separation between measurement and settlement when monetary instability becomes severe . Temporary units of account, index units and informal reference currencies have all emerged spontaneously in the past. UFD is simply the first time this separation is closed mathematically, without compromise.
In this sense, UFD allows Bitcoin to win without needing to be loved. It does not rely on belief, advocacy or narrative dominance. It relies on correctness. And systems that are correct tend to impose themselves over time, quietly and inevitably.