Bitcoin is Bitcoin and better than stablecoins so Bitcoin does not need stablecoins or need them to become a unit of account.

With Bitcoin, you have Bitcoin private key (with non custodial wallets), and you have your own bank, own unit of account without any need of stable coins.

Stablecoins are very dangerous and if you don't know
PSA: Most Stablecoins Can Be Frozen, Even in Your Own Wallets.
Stable coin and black lists.

Yes and no. Fiat value isn't that important for people than purchasing power. Let's say someone gets their salary in BTC. They'll ask things like: Can I pay my rent with less than half of the salary? Can I eat until the end of the month with the remaining BTC? Bitcoin definitely fluctuates too much in comparison to goods to be an unit of account.

I agree with the argument that "practice" with on-chain assets like stablecoins isn't bad. But I don't believe in an automatism, that Bitcoin then will also "naturally" become an unit of account. Stablecoin handling is too similar to e-money like Paypal, and e-money is already around since the 90s.

My impression is that the evolution towards an unit of account could be come more from things like Bitcoin donations. People can start to donate 0.001 or 0.0001 BTC to a charity of their choice, and then slowly become accustomed to these amounts. Also Lightning could help: if you open a channel for a certain amount of Bitcoins, you get a feeling how much you can pay with your channel capacity.

Merchants could also help, for example creating promotional campaigns with things they sell for round Bitcoin amounts.

BTW, signature campaigns in this forum were in the past one of the few activities where BTC worked as the unit of account. This has not been very popular recently, even if Bitcoin's volatility isn't as high as before.

It is IMO not strictly necessary, because Bitcoin can also continue to live as a more niche speculative asset. But to evolve towards a more serious one, I think it could be helpful once the volatility approaches the value of gold (currently, Bitcoin's volatility is 1,5-3x higher).

Before i could say anything, maybe we should first here out what wiki have to say about unit of account, compare on the various definitions there and try to related it to what bitcoin stand for.

As for your first question, the answer is Yes, it is.



Bitcoin is seen as a good store of value, which we can have our assets in, this shows how it has a multi-applicable use and still stand as a unit of account.


Bitcoin is used as legal tender in some countries, we can make payment in it, store it, pay for goods and services, it has every characteristics an acceptable currency can be identified, we can buy and sell using bitcoin, but just that some government never realized this, while the people already are using what they wanted without waiting for thier approval before use.

The likelihood of Bitcoin becoming a unit of account is low because of the same reason the Gold standard was stopped
And Gold stopped being a unit of account
That is, it was not suitable for making monetary policy
In summary, you can't print more when you want more.

The government needs Fiat to control maintain the economy.
I would say Co-existence could be possible but the government wouldn't want a sword of Damocles like Bitcoin challenging their control.
For now being a Store of Value is noted
Maybe as time goes on there would be changes in perception.