Processing transactions involving participants that do not support the
same currency generally involves incrementing and decrementing currencies
associated with the participants. This allows the participants to
participate in transactions where they would not ordinarily be able to do
so. A request is received from a first participant to process a
transaction using a first currency that is not recognized by a second
participant in the transaction. In response to receiving the request from
the first participant, an amount of the first currency associated with
the first participant is decremented. Also in response to receiving the
request from the first participant, an amount of second currency
associated with the first participant is incremented. The second
participant recognizes the second currency. The transaction is processed
using the amount of second currency associated with the first
participant.