Hi Bruce, at first I am sorry for the delay.
Am 10.07.21 um 23:44 schrieb Bruce Schuck: > Hello GnuCash developers, > > I'm one of the Finance::Quote contributers. There are now a few stable > APIs available to get pricing information for Crypto-Currencies. One of > them already used in F::Q for physical currencies, AlphaVantage, is even > using the same API (CURRENCY_EXCHANGE_RATE - > https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/#crypto-exchange) call for > both. Which would make it relatively easy to incorporate into > Finance:Quote's currency modules and treat them as currency rather than > treating crypto more like securities. > > We are wondering what the GnuCash roadmap is regarding digital > currencies? While they are not assigned ISO 3166 or 4217 codes, so far > the identifiers for crypto (BTC, ETH, XLM as examples) have not > conflicted with existing physical currencies. > > Perhaps we can start a discussion between the two teams. On this email > list or maybe the Finance-Quote-Devel > (https://sourceforge.net/projects/finance-quote/lists/finance-quote-devel) > email list? > > Thanks for your time. > > - Bruce S. we have already a long standing RFE https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690479 but nobody had time to work on it. The main problem can be seen in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217#Unofficial_codes_for_cryptocurrencies Many conflicts with ISO 4217. So we want the cryptos in a separate namespace "userdefined". So we are searching for volunteers, who implement the currency namespace "userdefined". Regards Frank _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
