On Saturday 28 June 2014 16:18:33 you wrote: > On Jun 28, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Rainer Dorsch <m...@bokomoko.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Yahoo and Google start to list the bitcoin currency > > > > http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/06/12/google-and-yahoo-finance-now-show-> > the-price-of-bitcoin/ > > > > e.g. > > > > http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BTCUSD=X > > > > What is the status of the addition of BTC to gnucash? > > You could use it now as a security (which the US Internal Revenue Service > requires), except that the max denominator is still 1E6. You could work > around that by using milli-bitcoin with a 1E5 max denominator. > > 2.8 will be able to support the additional required precision, though > Christian Stimming and I are at the moment having a frank discussion about > what's the best way to get there: See the "Rethinking Numerics" thread in > this list. > > It isn't going to be treated as a currency until the ISO's 4217 Maintenance > Agency says it is one. >
The downside of not treating it as a currency is that its "exchange" rates may not be maintained through finance::quote. Why do you want to limit gnucash to the performance of a (slow moving?) standardization organization? Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch http://bokomoko.de/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
