[GNC] Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)

Stan Brown the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm
Thu Dec 29 13:36:42 EST 2022


On 2022-12-29 09:03, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> 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'.

Amen!

My first reaction was "what does this have to do with GnuCash"? I see
I'm not alone in that!

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com


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