Hi Graham, Thanks for your response.
This comes down to somewhat more of a socioeconomic and political level than the average code hacker may care to deliberate on, so please bear with me. ¨I don't see how any of this has anything to do with gnucash - gnucash is an accounting system...¨ But I would like to account with bitcoin, in the same manner as I account with any fiat currency. There is a purely /*practical */aspiration at the heart of my desire. ¨it accounts for money, but doesn't care as to the origin of that money.¨ A) ¨Money¨ is defined here in *WHO's* terms? B) According to the existing protocol (at least as I understand it), bitcoin is not money. C) The origin of money is something you might like to do a little more research on. D) Apparently GnuCash DOES care ¨as to the origin of that money¨, as it seems to prevent any non-fiat currency from being used as money, in the same way as an authorized ISO currency. E) I have already explained to you, that I cant /ipso-facto/ apparently use bitcon as a currency in the usual manner. How much more simply do I need to break it down, to explain that I cant use GnuCash to do my accounting in bitcoin? ¨Am I right in understanding that you want a currency code for bitcoin included in gnucash?¨ Damn straight I do. And I have gone further in my elucidations of how far I believe bitcoin could be implemented as a meta-currency and used as way to implement cross currency liquidity. Did you read my message? ¨The best solution is for bitcoin to get a proper ISO currency code, and then gnucash would just support it as an official code.¨ Are you aware of who is in control of who gets the actual opportunity to declare their intention for ISO registration, and have it accepted? I understand that there have been some earnest and forthright attempts to put bitcoin forward as an ISO standard. They failed for the usual pathetic bureaucratic excuses, notably that bitcoin does not fall under any national jurisdiction. Apparently nothing may be considered currency unless itś under control of a national government. Those who have the power, will naturally oppose the egalitarian emancipation of such disruptive technology as a boundless universal economy. This is a tool for disbanding from nationalist dictatorships and emancipating egalitarian monetary reform. *PLEASE WAKE UP.* I have pointed the developers to what I believe are extremely good sources for your better consideration of this matter. But, do your own research and tell *ME* why you think it shouldn't be included. Better yet, instead of fobbing me off with a call for accountability on my behalf, to an apparently unjust system, which you might unwittingly deffer too, perhaps you might elucidate why ANY of the pre-requisites (or excuses) for the ISO standard should be considered just or fair by default. Are the developers of GnuCash, mindless automatons for the government controlled fiat system of money supply? Why in the hell, does GnuCash, require ISO currency certification in the first place? Do we *not* already understand why open source and mutual voluntary co-operation is a superior model of building systems of social reform? Control over who gets to say what *IS* or *ISN'T* money is probably one of the most important failure points in the whole success of our society. And lets cut all the formal crap BTW. There are some bad times approaching. Shit is getting real. We need some fiscal protection against the shit storm that is coming our way. Please Honor, use and support bitcoin, as the first and only ubiquitous, universal, non-political, technically an socially superior, source of money that there is or ever was. Thanks again for your time, Karmicads. -- View this message in context: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/For-The-Love-Of-Bitcoin-tp4348895p4397667.html Sent from the GnuCash - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
