Hi,

I have been using gnucash for over ten years. My data contains all data (Sqlite 
database ~20MB). I have lived in four different countries and since the move 
never was a clear cut, I ended up having four separate 
Equity/Assets/Liabilities/Expenses/Income hierarchies, one for each. I made 
extensive usage of the multi-currency functionality (e.g., living in country A, 
paying with credit card from country B) which has an exchange rate for each 
transaction/split when the two accounts have different currencies.

Recently I stumbled into this problem: "Securities" (crypto currency) which I 
buy from different brokers in each country. So I have a broker in Canadian 
dollars, US Dollars, Euro. Now these "shares" (=Bitcoin) get transfered to my 
personal wallet. This personal wallet is represented as Stock account with 
security BTC and the sources of its transactions are the stock accounts of each 
trader with different currencies. Suddenly it gets messy ... the personal 
wallet account would mix different currencies in the same ledger 
(Price/Buy/Sell values represent 1:1 the values of the source accounts -- there 
is no currency conversion).

So I got recommended using trading accounts. But suddenly all my previous 
multi-currency transactions get a small grey box with a cross (hinting the 
transaction is inconsistent).

How do I best deal with this?
Is it possible to keep my old multi currency transactions as-is and use trading 
accounts only for securities/stocks?

If not, how do I migrate while ensuring my ten years worth of data does not 
suddenly get inconsistent?

Thanks,
Lukas

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