A small adder:
The problem seems to be AlphaVantage related.
I switched for currency retrival to the European Central Bank (ECB)
rd@h370:/usr/share/doc/libfinance-quote-perl/examples$ cd /usr/bin/
rd@h370:/usr/bin$ diff -u gnc-fq-helper.orig gnc-fq-helper
--- gnc-fq-helper.orig 2021-01-06 10:07
Hi,
I added an account with KRW (Korean Won) to gnucash. Gnucash then tries to
retrieve an exchange rate for KRW. Unfortunately, now finance-quote times
out in the currency exchange rate request (sometimes after a very long time).
It is strange that even after deleting the account with KRW, gnu
