Thanks for the link, I had missed that during my initial preview phase. I 
decided to just jump right in, and I already feel that it's the right 
choice.

Yes, I was referring to the lot prices. I see how it makes a lot of sense 
for normal stocks and other integer-valued assets.
However, for fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies, I would expect tracking 
lots to be a huge headache (it's always fractional).
Especially since I'm living in a very multi-currency situation even now.

*However*, I've found that just having 2 trading accounts (1 for fiat-fiat 
exchange, 1 for crypto-crypto and fiat-crypto exchange) is enough to 
implement the "trading accounts" method.
For each transaction, you can just specify:

2021-05-07 * "Self" "Example currency conversion"
   Assets:Cash -100 USD
   Assets:Cash 117 CAD
   Expenses:Exchange:Fiat 4 USD
   Income:Exchange:Fiat

This will automatically track all FX (or crypto) income and fees separately.
I'm not even certain a plugin needs to be developed, maybe a shortcut for 
"I did an exchange here".

As I understand, the only downside is that all my gains/losses will be 
averaged out, so I can't do creative tax matching.
However, since any crypto losses can only be weighed against future crypto 
gains (in my location), I don't see this as much of a problem.

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