LibreOffice Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin As Currency

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phoronix: Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is now recognizing Bitcoin "BTC" as a supported currency for use within the Calc spreadsheet program and elsewhere within this cross-platform free software office suite. Stemming from a recent bug report requesting Bitcoin as an official currency option within LibreOffice Calc, the necessary additions are now in place so it's a built-in preset like USD and EUR. Thus easier managing of Bitcoin transactions and the like from within LibreOffice Calc.

Tulips are next?

[linuxguy]

When are they going to add the Trump coin or the Melania coin? Or bored ape NFTs? If you are going to go crypto bro on us, don't do go halfway.

Use Your Imagination

[Roger W Moore]

No, next they will allow currency symbols to work with imaginary numbers. This will not only help LibreOffice support crypto but several other financial products as well. Look for it in their next release, codenamed "Pyramid".

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[timeOday]

It's not like they built a bitcoin wallet into LibreOffice. Sounds like it's just a formatting code that has a symbol and is treated as a currency value.

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[anonymouscoward52236]

I mean, realistically, if you're trying to implement such a thing, might as well dump every coin symbol from an online coin ticker.

Makes sense

[GuB-42]

Bitcoin has an official symbol present in Unicode, many people use Bitcoin in some form or another, consider it a legitimate currency, and want to put it in a spreadsheet.

LibreOffice is productivity software, not a political statement about cryptocurrencies, so if people need it, just add it to the list. As for the others, again, it depends on usage.

Re: Makes sense

[drinkypoo]

It really ought to allow the user to just add new currencies of their choice.

BTC does make sense for inclusion, though, since it is popular.

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[test321]

It really ought to allow the user to just add new currencies of their choice.

It does just it is not persistent https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/... [libreoffice.org]

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[test321]

Or maybe they chose to pay for Collabora Online (cloud version of LibreOffice) https://www.collaboraonline.co... [collaboraonline.com]

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[anonymouscoward52236]

What if you just prefer to not post all of your data up to the cloud?

Switching from Notepad.exe immediately

[thesjaakspoiler]

Why can't Windows have innovating features like this?

When are they going to fix the shit interface?

[TheMiddleRoad]

Libre, Open, Star... terrible interface all along.

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[yagmot]

Have you tried ONLYOFFICE? Its UI is much better IMO.

Eww

[Berkyjay]

Well that sucks.