On 2021-08-18 21:51, Weiwu Zhang wrote:
...I'd propose two additional namespaces parallel to the current
"Currency" namespace: Tokens and Commodity
Tokens: this is for all types of payment tokens that are typically
called "Something Dollar" where something is an industry or company
name. They are typically pegged to a currency. "BarterCard Dollar" is
such an example. There are community dollars that is used only in a
city or a community group which can roughly fall into this category.
Commodity: this includes all kinds of a commodity that can be used for payment.
I'll simply propose that Tokens have an issuing company, such as
Qantas Points are issued by Qantas, while Commodity does not. Bitcoin
roughly falls into Commodity since they are not issued by any
organisation or individual. We can maintain a commodity list in
GnuCash officially and let Tokens be user-defined.
This allows Bitcoin to be accounted in GnuCash without official
endorsing Bitcoin as a currency. Instead, I propose GnuCash supports
commodity accounts, a type of non-currency account that can be used to
transact without buying/selling the commodity first.
The programming work doesn't sound much to me. We can ignore the
six-digit precision problem (Bitcoin typically use 8 digits past the
decimal point). Is anyone interested and would such work be accepted?
I'm interested in sponsoring some of the efforts.
Hello, Weiwu Zhang:
There was a related conversation in the gnucash-devel list in the last
few weeks. See subject "[GNC-dev] Crypto Currencies" in the archives at
<https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2021-July/045900.html>
and
<https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2021-August/045923.html>.
The most helpful paragraphs were probably this:
On 2021-08-01 02:44, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
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".
So, perhaps you would like to read bug 690479, and add your thoughts to it?
Best regards,
—Jim DeLaHunt
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