Hello GNUCash Devs,
I would like to put forward a feature request to hopefully be included in a future version of GNUCash. I have been an avid bitcoin enthusiast from the early days of bitcoin. Incase you are unaware, bitcoin is a digital crypto-curency and one of the hottest burgoning technologies on the internet. Bitcoin enables people to transact in a digital medium of exchange, without the services of a trusted middle man, using bitcoin client software on a peer to peer network. Bitcoin is, I feel confident, a real game changer and puts the currency back in the hands of the people. It is also carefully designed to increase in value as the rate of production tapers off to a fixed target of 21000000 bitcoins. That is all the bitcoins that will ever be made. While GNUCash is a very sophisticated and professional accounting application, it seems to lack the features for handling this revolutionary currency. The conventional banks and government powers, have been all too slow to adopt modern information technology and rather than adapt their methods to suit modern technology and consumer needs, they have floundered and only adopted computers as tools to suit their outmoded systems. Governments meanwhile, have allowed our currencies to be gutted of value and bludgeoned to death with complacency and stupidity. Their benefactors always being ruthless corporate tyrants, who mercilessly manipulate politicians and markets, at such scales of power, that nobody can touch them. The days of needing intermediary institutions to handle our financial dealings are just about gone now. The times are changing and the fiat based economy is listing and pitching in the high seas of modern technology. Bitcoin sits on the precipice of this timely revolution, offering the average person the chance to take back the night and usher in the universal medium of exchange that knows no national boundaries and can´t be subverted by a tiny minority of greedy tyrants and their political goons. Bitcoin is a universal medium of exchange and a convenient store of value that can emancipate our financial liberty and restore money to it´s optimum roll as a tool for public good. Needles to say, I would like to be able to do my accounting for bitcoin, in the same manner that I can do it for regular fiat based currency. GNUCash being firstly a digital accountanct application that could service a digital currency, to a much greater degree, than it even can for fiat currency. Secondly GNUCash is, like bitcoin, an open source initiative that benefits from free public participation and mutual voluntary cooperation. As such, the developer team must appreciate open standards and the role of consensus and community involvement that both projects depend upon to flourish. I submit to you emphatically, that GNUCash would be the exemplar of positive social change in the area of financial management software, if it were to adopt bitcoin and allow it to be incorporated into the workings of GNUCash as intimately as possible. As a currency of choice and a global medium of exchange, bitcoin stands as the quintessential technological revolution in currency, finance and liberty. I implore you to give bitcoin pride of place and put GNUCash at the forefront of this inevitable revolution. Regards Karmicads. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
