* [email protected] <[email protected]> [2018-10-07 07:12]:
> It appears that buying commodities (crypto currencies in the following 
> example) debits them from Equity:Opening Balances.

> 2018/10/01  Deposit
>     Assets:Checking                 $200.00
> 
> *$ ledger -f test.ledger balance*
> 
>              $100.00
>         0.429485 ETH  Assets
>              $100.00    Checking

> Is there a way to make ledger know that this commodity was purchased with 
> cash from *Assets:Checking*?

Your own example shows that this is exactly what is happening already.
You had $200 and now you have $100 in assets:checking.

You just get confused my the equity command.  Don't use that.  This is
only to create starting balances if you want to split your ledger
file.
https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#The-equity-command

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
https://www.cyrius.com/

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