Kalpesh Another thing to be wary of. The scammers love bitcoin no regulation no protections: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-08/cryptocurrency-scams-targeting-australians-losing-millions/100678848 David
On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 14:19 -0500, Kalpesh Patel wrote: > Why not to set this up as a true currency in GNC, instead of Stock or Mutual > Fund? > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 8 > > Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 12:42:21 +0000 > > From: Eric Coates <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [GNC] Bitcoin is legal currency in El Salvador - why not > > add BTC? > > Message-ID: <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > > > Hi > > > > To (slightly) misquote John Ralls > > "Bitcoin is neither a major nor a minor currency. It's not a currency at > all:...[it is]? a speculation vehicle, not a currency." > > but as shares are also "speculation vehicles" a possibility arises. > > > > Starting from Dustin Henning's comment, some trivial experimentation shows > that it is possible to set up a Bitcoin account in GnuCash by classifying it > as a Stock (although Mutual Fund may be more appropriate as, I understand, > fractional parts of Bitcoin are possible) and setting up Bitcoin as a > security. And (somewhat to my surprise) it is possible to get on-line quotes > by specifying the Symbol/abbreviation as BTC-GBP and using Yahoo as JSON as > the source in the Single source drop-down. > > (BTC -USD is also available, others may be - I haven't checked). > > > > So (probably after some experimentation) Bitcoin can already be handled > within GnuCash! > > > > "They knew not how well they built" > > > > Take care > > > > Eric > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
