(Bitcoin)trading strategy

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 23 18:48:02 EST 2013


On 12/23/2013 2:24 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> "Dustin Henning" <The00Dustin at gmx.net> writes:
>
>> Bitcoin does not work well in GnuCash because it has 8 decimal places.
>> GnuCash seems to only properly support 6 even when you manually edit the ML
>> file to support 8. I tried to keep track of Bitcoin this way a couple years
>> ago and it was a nightmare.  I finally deleted all of that from my GnuCash
>> file and just tracked it separately without financial software.
> I recommend people track MiliBitcoins (mBTC, e.g. 1/1000 BTC).
>
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> -derek

How hard would it be to change the GnuCash code so that 8 decimal place
granularity could be supported?

David C


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