{"id":50178,"date":"2021-09-26T17:16:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T14:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=50178"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:34:46","slug":"crypto-trading-hamster-portfolio-outperforms-warren-buffetts-berkshire-hathaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/crypto-trading-hamster-portfolio-outperforms-warren-buffetts-berkshire-hathaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto-trading hamster portfolio outperforms Warren Buffett&#8217;s Berkshire Hathaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over three months, the value of Mr. Goxx&#8217;s portfolio\u2014the Twitch-based crypto-trading hamster\u2014rose by 30%. Over the same period, Warren Buffett&#8217;s Berkshire Hathaway fund assets fell by 2%, and Cathie Wood&#8217;s ARK Innovation <span data-descr=\"exchange-traded fund\" class=\"old_tooltip\">ETF<\/span> rose by about 5%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"611\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goxx.png\" alt=\"Crypto-trading hamster Mr. Goxx's portfolio outpaced Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway\" class=\"wp-image-150792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goxx.png 611w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goxx-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" \/><figcaption>Mr. Goxx&#8217;s portfolio value trajectory. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/protos.com\/crypto-trading-hamster-goxx-outperforms-bitcoin-buffett-wood\/\">Protos<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In June 2021, the hamster&#8217;s owner <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hamster-on-twitch-trading-cryptocurrencies-from-his-cage\">built him a special cage<\/a>, equipped with optical sensors connected to an Arduino Nano controller. This allows the rodent to &#8216;trade&#8217; digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>By spinning the running wheel, the hamster &#8216;selects&#8217; a specific cryptocurrency for trading. The program will sell the coin when the rodent runs through the left tunnel, and buy if it runs through the right.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mr. Goxx | First Performance Review (World's first crypto asset trading hamster!)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i5scs_NWTSg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Initially, Mr. Goxx&#8217;s portfolio was valued at $390. In less than three months, its value rose to $498. On Monday, 20 September, the hamster&#8217;s assets stood at $580, but the value later fell.<\/p>\n<p>The rodent managed to beat not only Berkshire Hathaway and ARK Innovation, but also the S&#038;P 500 (+6% over the same period) and the NASDAQ-100 (+12%), as well as Bitcoin itself (+23%).<\/p>\n<p>The hamster&#8217;s best trades were:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>purchasing the Chiliz (CHZ) token at $23.60 and selling at $36.44 (+54%);<\/li>\n<li>purchasing the Pantos (PAN) token at $23.57 \u2014 selling at $35.33 (+50%);<\/li>\n<li>purchasing Dogecoin (DOGE) at $23.79 and selling at $34.80 (+50%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The largest holding in Mr. Goxx&#8217;s portfolio is Tron (TRX). The hamster bought it five times; since the first trade, the cryptocurrency&#8217;s price has risen by 40%.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2018, Coinspot launched a YouTube show Hamster Insider, in which the rodent predicted the market direction for the next ten days. Only two episodes were released on the channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over three months, the value of Mr. Goxx&#8217;s portfolio\u2014the Twitch-based crypto-trading hamster\u2014rose by 30%. Over the same period, Warren Buffett&#8217;s Berkshire Hathaway assets fell by 2%, and Cathie Wood&#8217;s ARK Innovation ETF rose by about 5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1267,1718],"class_list":["post-50178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-trading","tag-fun"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50180,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50178\/revisions\/50180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}