On 16 Feb 2012, at 7:45 AM, karmicads wrote: >>> I suppose I´d like to see bitcoin supported as a mainstream currency, >>> despite the lack of official ISO recognition. I imagine GnuCash not only > >> I don't know what our policy is on adding non-ISO currencies to the list >> of currencies. > > That would be a great start. In revision of this policy, I think it may be > poignant to consider the nature of currency, as shared information about > what the wider populous values. There are distinct qualitative differences, > between the officially supported ISO fiat currencies and that of an online > ´viral´ currency like bitcoin. Firstly, bitcoin´s value is derived by direct > supply and demand of the marketplace, rather than being authorized by any > government mandate that it must be used as legal tender. The most obvious > problem with government fiat currencies in general, is that the extent of > their value, extends only as far as the legal mandate of their issuing > government authorities.
[snip] I don't see how any of this has anything to do with gnucash - gnucash is an accounting system, it accounts for money, but doesn't care as to the origin of that money. Am I right in understanding that you want a currency code for bitcoin included in gnucash? The best solution is for bitcoin to get a proper ISO currency code, and then gnucash would just support it as an official code. Is there a reason why bitcoin doesn't have an ISO code? Regards, Graham -- _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
