[GNC-dev] Crypto Currencies

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hi Bruce,

at first I am sorry for the delay.

Am 10.07.21 um 23:44 schrieb Bruce Schuck:
> Hello GnuCash developers,
> 
> I'm one of the Finance::Quote contributers. There are now a few stable
> APIs available to get pricing information for Crypto-Currencies. One of
> them already used in F::Q for physical currencies, AlphaVantage, is even
> using the same API (CURRENCY_EXCHANGE_RATE -
> https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/#crypto-exchange) call for
> both. Which would make it relatively easy to incorporate into
> Finance:Quote's currency modules and treat them as currency rather than
> treating crypto more like securities.
> 
> We are wondering what the GnuCash roadmap is regarding digital
> currencies? While they are not assigned ISO 3166 or 4217 codes, so far
> the identifiers for crypto (BTC, ETH, XLM as examples) have not
> conflicted with existing physical currencies.
> 
> Perhaps we can start a discussion between the two teams. On this email
> list or maybe the Finance-Quote-Devel
> (https://sourceforge.net/projects/finance-quote/lists/finance-quote-devel)
> email list?
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> - Bruce S.

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".

Regards
Frank