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Title: standardized currency codes? Post by: zenyfomax1 on January 03, 2018, 06:29:03 AM Wondering if someone knows of efforts for cataloguing and standardizing cryptocurrency codes. As we all know, currently different cryptoexchanges sometimes use different codes e.g. XBT or BTC for bitcoin, BCC or BCH for bitcoin cash, XLM or STR for stellar lumens, and so on. Also, some of these codes are not ISO-4217 compliant, e.g. BTC clashes with Bhutan currency and so on (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217).
I'm asking this because I'm planning to write a common CLI for multiple exchanges. Title: Re: standardized currency codes? Post by: Herbert2020 on January 03, 2018, 06:41:42 AM as for altcoins nobody cares because they are not used anywhere outside of exchanges and inside exchanges they can call it whatever they want and since there are only finite number of letters in English language but infinite number of altcoins it is impossible to even try to make any standard for them. for example BCC is bitconnect and is taken already. but bitcoin cash is also using it sometimes. [1] (it turns out XBT is not standard either, it is chosen by exchanges and other places like CME group as the symbol but not standard) Title: Re: standardized currency codes? Post by: bitperson on January 03, 2018, 06:50:39 AM the ISO standard for bitcoin is XBT only because calling it BTC and starting with B was not possible because of conflict with another currency (fiat i forgot which country) but people use and prefer BTC because it is easier to use and it has been used longer. I don't believe 'XBT' is a standard. As far as I know, the only ISO 4217 assigned X codes are these:as for altcoins nobody cares because they are not used anywhere outside of exchanges and inside exchanges they can call it whatever they want and since there are only finite number of letters in English language but infinite number of altcoins it is impossible to even try to make any standard for them. for example BCC is bitconnect and is taken already. but bitcoin cash is also using it sometimes.
Title: Re: standardized currency codes? Post by: zenyfomax1 on January 03, 2018, 07:35:32 AM just to clarify, i'm not specifically asking for ISO compliant codes. any kind of cataloging is okay.
Title: Re: standardized currency codes? Post by: zenyfomax1 on January 06, 2018, 06:09:50 AM I've published my first catalog, based on CMC with some symbols/names changed to make them unique. please take a look and hopefully this is useful to some of us.
https://metacpan.org/release/PERLANCAR/CryptoCurrency-Catalog-20180106 |