[wvic] Re: WVIC - Mr Goxx, the cryptocurrency-trading hamster, dies - BBC News
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<p>With a full load of ammo it would not be able to take of!</p>
<p>Edewin</p>
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I hope this doesn’t have an influence on the market!
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Best
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Mr Goxx passed away peacefully on Tuesday
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class="">The cryptocurrency-trading hamster Mr Goxx has died. </strong></p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">The rodent, who shot to internet
fame for his ability to often outperform human investors using a specially
built trading cage, died on Tuesday.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">The furry financier's official
Twitter account announced the hamster's death to his 18,000 followers on social
media.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">"You proved to us, that the
internet doesn't necessarily have to be a toxic wasteland," his owners told the
BBC.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">"We are absolutely overwhelmed
with the uncountable and touching condolences which we've received across all
channels.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">What we personally learned from
this project has little to do with crypto."</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">The hamster's financial career,
and subsequent fame, were borne of an experiment by two friends in Germany who
wanted to prove the randomness of success in the digital currency industry.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">Mr Goxx's trading office,
attached to his regular cage, was watched by thousands on a Twitch livestream.
He would famously make decisions by running on his "intention wheel" to select
which cryptocurrency he'd like to trade and subsequently entering either a buy
or sell tunnel on his 'office floor'.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">Every time he ran through a
tunnel, the electronics wired to his office completed the trade according to Mr
Goxx's desires.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">The tiny trader began his
financial career on 12 June 2021.After his final day of trading on 22 November,
his portfolio was up 19.7% and he had made about 98 Euros profit.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">Recent calculations by
crypto-news site Protos suggested the hamster's latest financial results beat
investing supremo Warren Buffet's company, Berkshire Hathaway.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">On occasion, Mr Goxx even came
out slightly ahead of Bitcoin, the biggest of the crypto-currencies.</p>
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Mr Goxx's decision wheel and buy-sell tunnels lay at the core of his
operation
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">Goxx Capital was not a real
investment firm, however - and Mr Goxx's human partners stressed, with every
tweet, that the hamster's decisions should not be taken as investment
advice.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">The pair, a programmer and a
lecturer, saw Mr Goxx as the face of a "light-hearted side project".</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">"It seems like most people from
our generation see no other chance than throwing a lot of their savings on the
crypto market, without having a clue what's going on there," the anonymous duo
behind Mr Goxx explained in September.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">"We were joking about whether my
hamster would be able to make smarter investment decisions than we humans do,"
<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58707641" style="color: #416ed2; ;
max-width: 100%;" class="">they told the BBC.</a></p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">Since the announcement of the
much-loved hamster's death, hundreds of people around the world have paid
tribute to his contribution to the crypto community.</p>
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successor</h2>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">As Mr Goxx's owners come to
terms with their loss, they say they have not yet decided if they will get a
new pet.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">"People have been asking about
whether there will be a successor keeping up business at Goxx Capital, but the
truth is that we don't know.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">"Most of our viewers really got
attached to our buddy - and many didn't even care about the crypto.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;" class="">"This hit me harder than I
expected. When that choice is made and we decide to have a new family member,
we could think about continuing with the project. Until then, no
plans." </p>
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