currencybot/open-exchange-rates — Issue #16: BitCoin exchange rate
Author: josscrowcroft
Created: 2011-12-14 10:58:40+00:00
State: open
Labels: data

Was chatting to colleagues last night and one suggested adding virtual currencies to the open exchange rates data - BitCoin springs to mind, but also potentially Linden Dollars (Second Life) and any other currency with a real foreign exchange potential.

I think it's a cool idea, and may in fact be useful to people who allow users to pay in BitCoin - the difficulty would be finding a canonical source for the exchange rate, when (as far as I know) every BitCoin exchange buys/sells at different prices.

Anyone have any ideas or thoughts on this?