[GNC] Bitcoin is legal currency in El Salvador - why not add BTC?

[Dr. David Kirkby]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 at 16:09, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

>
> > Is there not a case for adding cryptocurrency support? For anyone able to
> > build GnuCash from the source code, I would expect it to be a trivial
> > matter to add whatever currency they want, but I would have thought
> > there's
> > a good case for adding cryptosupport, in addition to fiat currencies.
>
> There is no ISO4217 entry for it.


The great thing about standards is that there’s a lot to choose from. 😂😢

It seems all cryptocurrency exchanges use data from CoinMarketCap, so I
would have thought that to be as authoritative a list
as any.

https://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all/

I'm in the UK, and have never dealt with anyone in El Salvador, but it
seems odd for an accounting package not to support a currency that's legal
tender in a certain country.

I see that there are some minor currencies not listed in ISO 4217, but
around $39,000,000,000 of bitcoin have been traded over the last 24-hours.
It is hardly a minor currency.

I guess this gives me an incentive to get GnuCash to compile on linux. Then
adding cryptocurrencies would (I assume) be fairly easy.

Dave