# Cryptocurrency

**URL:** <https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/cryptocurrency/37>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 5, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/cryptocurrency/37 "2024-03-05T23:53:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![EvergreenCrypto](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.plaintextaccounting.org/evergreencrypto/32/48_2.png) [@EvergreenCrypto](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/u/EvergreenCrypto)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 7:53am UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/cryptocurrency/37/5 "2024-03-14T07:53:50Z")

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> [@ralf](#):
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> Hledger has been phenomenal for my banking purposes, but I am trying to find a good workflow for cryptocurrency.

Hi ralf! From what I understand, `docker-finance` may be exactly what you’re looking for:

> [@Docker-finance | modern accounting for the power-user](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/docker-finance-modern-accounting-for-the-power-user/189):
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> Hello wonderful PTA community! Announcing the first beta release of docker-finance: powered by hledger, hledger-flow and more. From the “Overview”: docker-finance empowers you with a privacy-focused, highly uniform system of financial management - but with a modern twist. Cryptocurrencies and blockchain metadata are unified with your legacy finances to create a world of best-practice accounting in a highly flexible, time-tested environment. You can find highlights, screenshots and mor…

I don’t know what wallet/chain/exchange you’re using but, with `docker-finance` and bitcoin.tax (not direct linking but they provide a service that calculates the FIFO/LIFO/etc. for you), you may be able to automate almost everything you’re trying to do (checkout the [“Taxes” section in “Screenshots”](https://gitea.com/EvergreenCrypto/docker-finance#taxes)).

For anything that can’t be automated, `docker-finance` has a system in place that allows you to easily add custom comments on a [per-transaction (or per-subaccount or per-whatever-tag-or-column-you-want-thanks-to-hledger-rules) basis as needed](https://gitea.com/EvergreenCrypto/docker-finance/src/commit/b621e87df2cce60a8daab9fc5de6afe8e77fba96/.img/examples/container_help_03.png) (even with emacs, if you’d like).

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