And if I add the cost manually, it shows a "Transaction does not balance"
error.
On Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 6:07:09 PM UTC+3, Dennis Golomazov wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question. Imagine you buy bitcoins, so they are held at cost.
> Then later you use them to buy something (so they go to Expenses:
> subaccount nominated in bitcoins).
> How do you record that transaction? Ideally I want the gains/losses to be
> realized.
> But If I do something like:
>
> 2013-06-01 * "Buy pizza"
> Assets:Cryptocurrency:Coinbase:Bitcoin -10000 BTC {}
> Expenses:Pizza 10000 BTC
>
> beancount shows an error "No position matches...".
> I assume that's because BTC were bought with USD, but now are "sold" to
> BTC and not back to USD?
>
> This works:
>
> 2013-06-01 * "Buy pizza"
> Assets:Cryptocurrency:Coinbase:Bitcoin -10000 BTC {}
> Expenses:Pizza 100 USD
>
> the cost gets imputed correctly. But the thing is that pizza might haven't
> had a price in USD, it was nominated in bitcoins :)
> What's the best way to handle these situations?
>
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