Hello Fredrik, Am Donnerstag, 2. Juni 2011 um 15:52:27 schrieb Fredrik Persson: > The bitcoin cryptocurrency is traded on a site called mtgox.com. However, > tracking the mtgox account in gnucash is very difficult. The user balance > of bitcoins (BTC) and USD are tracked with a precision of 1/1000. You can > spend 0,001 USD. > > Currently, it is not possible to do anything with a 1/1000-th of a dollar > in gnucash. So one must fall back to a solution where a "MTGOXUSD" > commodity is set up which can be used instead of USD on mtgox. > > Also, the bitcoins themselves must be tracked as a commodity (lika a stock > or mutual fund). > > This gets very cumbersome and does not at all look very good. > > Could this be a case for user defined currencies in gnucash?
Yes, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648627 and 130920 for details of the discussion and http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/currency_acct1.html#currency_acct_user2 for possible workarounds. > /Fredrik Persson Frank _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
