[GNC] Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)

[Adrien Monteleone]

Such restrictions would have no bearing as to if they should be separate 
or not. It has nothing to do with GnuCash or even accounting.

If the respective governments simply treat them as equivalent to paper, 
coins, or other current digital blips, then they likely will not get 
separate currency codes.

Since separate currency codes would be quite messy for the ISO group 
responsible, and thus for implementing CBDCs at all, I highly doubt they 
will be treated separately by authorities.

However, none of that is of concern to GnuCash. Your question depends on 
what various governments end up doing in the future. Until they 
implement, there is little point in speculating, and zero point in 
altering code, or even thinking about it as there is no 'target'.

Regards,
Adrien

On 12/29/22 10:15 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2022 at 07:15, LI Daobing <lidaobing at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> CBDCs also can constrain the usage of money. like some money can only be
>> used to pay rent, and some other money can only be used to buy food.
>>
> 
> All the more reason that I don’t like them.
> 
> However, that gives a greater need to be able to consider them as separate
> assets, so I feel GnuCash should allow people to add other currencies, and
> not restrict currencies to those defined in an ISO standard.
> 
> Dave
>