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What is your definition of a whale? How many BTCs do you need to have to be a whale?

A whale s those who has many capital to trade that it can control  the trading. They can pump and dump the prices. I do not know how much capital needed but a lot of bitcoin to influenced the prices.

The use of the word 'whale' signifies something that is big maybe  more in terms of financial capacity, capital or resources. In case with cryptocurrency, a whale can influence the direction of trading most especially with a cryptocurrency with a small market base. There are also news that a group of whales can in fact manipulate the trading direction for Bitcoin, though this is still have to be confirmed from someone who is an insider in whale activities. I am not sure if how much funds or money a person or a group must have to be considered as a whale as we could have different perspective on this.

The whale called to know me is a whale in the sea. And we know that this is great. So here is the whale called trading. They are looking for a low Altcoins Volume and there they can put a big capital. I do not know how much money they have to raise a Altcoins. There are two so-called whales. One is a group of traders and one is independant. Based on my analysis on the Charts of each Altcoins the sea is the candle sticks and the whale increases if the candle sticks rise means that there is a whale inserted. That's just based on my look at the charts.

A bitcoin whale is generally a person who holds a huge amount of bitcoins in their wallet. And it those whales let say sold a huge chunk of bitcoin, it could have some effect on the price. I think they also manipulate the price from behind using this method. I also believed that this maybe a individual or a group of persons or even a company. So basically they are market movers because of their influence on the price.



It depends. Once individual can owns 1000 btc and can be called a mini-whale. And also there are dolphins as well. But those group of person who holds around 10000 or more can be definitely called a whaler. And I think early adopters of bitcoin has literally thousands of btc as well so they can categorically can be called as whale as well.

A whale is a crypto term to describe a person who has a huge number of coin that can move or manipulate market. I guess if you have a 500BTC you can be called whale.

The whales is a person that already had a lot of money and try to bought a lot of the percentage from the crowdsale to manipulate the market like what was happened with the ignis project.
There is no limit for the amount that to be owned by the whales. Thousands bitcoin.

For me is someone that has around 0,5% of the supply, which allows him or her to manipulate price by dumping.

A Whale can be too the one that is going to be a whale, for example, someone that has no BTC but starts to buy great amounts making the price raise.

A characteristic of a whale is that he/she is able and willing to actively influence market conditions by applying its relatively large share of the coin supply.

A whale is generally a person who holds are huge amount of btc, what a whale normally does is invest is huge amount of btc in a coin , even we invest or buy a coin but the difference is whenever a whale joins the market there is unexpected increase in price.
About being termed as a btc whale there is no specific amount of how many coins you need to have if you make a nice difference in price.

With 100 btc i am sure can bee a whale  

A whale is a person who have lots of money and is able to manipulate a market. Very often altcoin markets are manipulated by these whales, although I think if a coin has an actual potential, it could become successful regardless of whales.
A famous example of whale is Pantera Capital.

in my opinion, the whale is a person which have big capital and can play with the market, have ability to increase and decrease the market, not just one market, but almost all market. i can not identified how much bitcoin we must have to be whales but the point is as long as you have big capital in fiat and bitcoin then you are the whale.

A whale is a big slippery mammal typically with a well-filled belly.
When whales use their big blow hole, surrounding animals get upset.
Smaller mammals also tend to get disturbed by the bow wave of whales that are playing too enthusiastically.
Smart birds ride the back of whales.

Whales in trading are those people who have big chunk of money that they use when they trade mostly the whales has a big role in the market they are one of the reasons why there are coins that are pumping and they can also easily dump if they already have enough profit.

I heard that whale's oil is a potent substance that can get you awake in days so you can trade furiously. Sadly, this is rare now because America. But don't feel bad I heard that anyone can be a whale at mooncoin and dogecoin markets which is good so there's that.

a very large marine mammal with a streamlined hairless body, a horizontal tail fin, and a blowhole on top of the head for breathing.  ;D ;D ;D

The term whale is used in trading in bitcoins because whales are the biggest creatures in the ocean and they have controlled the power over smaller fish due to their large and bulky body. Whales in bitcoins are looked at similarly because their extensive holdings the business can affect big schools of smaller traders with just a few successful trading methods. They can turn over the whole business and prices. And as said there is no idea of money required to be a whale. I think it is huge, so huge

LOL. Very funny :))))

is it possible to read or guess when will these whale pump coins in the market? I've been reading some articles about trading since I am new with it. Then I came accross with these youtube videos about predicting movements of whales trading. I heven't watched it actually just want to make sure if those data aren't hoax. I don't want to information overload when it comes to trading.

I don't know for sure how many BTCs a trader would need to be called a whale but one thing for sure is that he has the capability to move the market and influence the traders to buy or to sell. If a certain coin is pump and dump, they would say that there is a possibility of whale manipulation because just one purchase of a whale and the coin has low volume would make the price increase for up to twice or thrice (pump) then it would attract the attention of other traders which would create FOMO and then when he profit enough, he would sell his position creating a dump.

So if you say that whale are those who have big capital for trading. What is the advantages of being a whale on bitcoin.?? Is there a minimum value of bitcoin  to be a whale.? And what are the disadvantages of being whale in bitcoin.? Thankyou for your responce.!!

The advantage for being a whale is you can manipulate the market price and play with it frequently and for becoming a whale you should have Flexible balance to cover up some good trades on the coin you desired especially with bitcoins, And i don't know on what is the disadvantage of being a whales since as far as I know the always winner on the trade is those people who have huge pocket to trade on.

being a whale is a relative matter which means you can be a whale with 0.5BTC in one market or you can bare be a whale with 2000BTC in another.
it generally means having a large amount or money and in the trading context it is someone who can influence the price by having that much. that is why i said it is relative.
in an altcoin market sometimes they are too small that you can manipulate them even with 1 bitcoin or less. for example buying 0.5BTC worth of some altcoin can increase its price 100%
but in other bigger markets it becomes harder. you may need 100 bitcoin just to increase the price 5%

I my opinion they are the one who can control the market or they can pump and dump a particular coin by only their ownself.
I think you may call yourself as a whale if you play around 10btc or higher in the market.

We could not exactly say that how many BTCs a trader needs to become a whale.If he has considerable huge amount of BTC which could influence the bitcoin price if sold immediately,then he should be termed as a big whale.These big whales usually sell all of their BTCs at once and make bitcoin price fall,which creates panic among newbies.Newbies immediately sell their bitcoins at cheaper price due to the fear of more price fall.Big whales just rebuy them at cheap price and increase their holdings more.Its a continuous strategy carried out by big whales and newbies regularly become victims since they lack knowledge about bitcoin.

As far as my understanding is, these people are traders that have so much btcs that they can actually manipulate movements of altcoins by playing with pumps and dumps. I don't know, 10btc perhaps can make you a whale by playing on a smaller altcoin

whatle is an animal live in ocean.... if u need whale so u need to known just whale vomit is 70k$ 1 kg....
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whale depend on ur coin u trade... if i have 50k$.. I can't be whale in btc market but in some trash coin with 10k$ marketcap I'm a super whale

For my opinion a whale is a person who can manipulate the price in the market,
It could pump the value at the same time he/she could also drop it down.
That's what I think whenever I heard the word whale specially when it comes to crypto currency.

This actually made my day. haha. I dont know if serious or not on this post since he did really define on whats a whale literally.  Well as a newbie you wont really easily catch up on whats going on here but if you are sensible enough we are on trading discussion board then probably we would discuss on a whale here on trading world.

For me, a whale is either a group or a single person/investor who have the capability on pumping prices of a certain coin they can easily affect the movement since they hold up huge volume of coins or they would decide to bought since they do have the money to put on.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale) That;s a whale,  ;D

- Yeah, but a whale can not manipulate price in the market, it only affects a certain part. Most whales play together, say a group and these whales will manipulate market prices according to what they want.
- They can pump heavily or dumping a coin any they like, their purpose is just to earn as much money as possible. And usually I always follow the whales, this is the way we make money

Yup, this happens every day in major trading floors as there will be lots of whales working together to raise market prices, which will be great for those who grasp the information as it will help them we make a lot of profit

there's been some good answers here, however here is some links that go into further detail, and even answer your question regarding how much investment is needed to influence a market.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-whale/

By injecting, say, 50,000 BTC, over the course of a week, a massive price change can be effected. Yet, doing so, for its own sake is pointless because the institution’s objective, just like smaller players, is to buy low and sell high – in other words, to turn a profit after each investment.

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-whales-and-how-they-make-market-waves/

Others here are defining literally what whale is, oh the irony. Well for me the definition of whale in terms of market whether it's with bitcoin or not. It's a big player, certainly a single person, groups or companies. I don't have an exact amount or idea on how much they had been holding, I guess 1,000 BTC is their minimum.

They are those who hopd great amount of crypto may it be btc or alts, they make sometimes the pumps and dumps when they buy and release it . They are mostly the target of ICO to make the project successful.

From the adjective itself, whale is somebody who can create waves. So if you can make highs and lows to a coin then please consider yourself as a whale.

Well you know, amigo... it's not only about bitcoins; you can create waves with your fiat. You may consider billions or trillions of Great Britain Pounds to pump and dump a coin.

I am not a whale myself but I totally understand how that works because I've been trading stocks for almost a decade now, yet I am foolish enough not to believe in bitcoins in its early stage.

They are not just hoping with great amount of bitcoins and alt coins but they want to have the big wave in the movement of a coins price. In the easiest word, they want to control the market of crypto currencies, they have the power, the wealth and the fame. And they want to extend it with the market of crypto currencies.

Whale is just a term when there is huge drop of price, and because of that many people will panic and will sell their bitcoins, and the one who drops the price of bitcoin eill buy the bitcoins that is going to be sell in a lower price so that the whale will be the one who will be benefited by this act.

Those whale are the big investors or rich people who invested a huge amount of bitcoin. There are many investors who investing into bitcoin amounting millions in dollars, However, it is not necessarily for us to become a whale though all of us here had chances to become like that aat the time we get some profit of more that 10BTC.

A whale is one of the traders that have a lot of bitcoin and they can control a cryptocurrency in the market to be able to generate some profit. They are called whales because of the big amount of bitcoin that they have and also they are professional in using those bitcoins. I think it needs at least 100 bitcoins in order to become whale.

Becoming a whale in crypto world is way easier, than in a normal trading, where you need to dominate the market with hundreds of millions of dollars. Here, a single man can affect the price with a million dollar worth bitcoins. Of course it has to be an altcoin that hasn't got a huge 24h volume, but it's way simpler than elsewhere.

my definition about whales is atleast have million USD in her balance  can control the market using that money he can easyly pump the coin they want to and get profit from it. but they accumolate first  the coin in lower price and maintain it that price until they think all coin that he is holding is enough then pump it.

in my opion a whale has pocket full of bitcoin at least 1000- 2000 bitcoins using all his resources to mainpulate the market up and down through that proceess he can take a profit 1 bitcoin or more .

I think term "whale" is relative to the volume of a market. I've seen people with just 20 BTC order trades disrupt smaller markets in the short term. Of course, at that point a bigger whale could come in and screw the first one over.

In my opinion whale is someone who can shake market.
How much bitcoins do you need to be a whale? Don't ask me. I am not even a fish, more like plankton and i don't usually think about those things. I just swim around...

A whale would really screw up the market specially on a coin on which it would really eat ups smaller buy or sell order depending into their plan on which way they would go that they can able to make more money. Whales can really easily manipulate prices since they do really have the power to do such thing, we know that money do really matters.

A whale is someone who has enough money to manipulate a market, and they do not necessarily need to be a millionaire because if you have a few thousand dollars you can manipulate small altcoin markets with low volume. Many people could be considered whales.

On every exchange there are people who sharply raise the price of a coin. They are artificially pumping it. Whales are those people who are able to raise the price of one coin right on many exchanges, because they have a lot of money

I think it is 100BTC enough

 ;D I think depend on marketcap of coin u invest... it marketcap is only 10k for total of this coin... :D U have 10 BTC. U will becam a whale in that market

Can they really so easy manipulate the market or is this just the fiction? And there definetely isn't enough only one whale to make some impact on market price thry have to work jlont, with same interest have certain amount of bitcoins. It has to be a lot but I'm not sure that is anywhere defined how much that is.

That is pretty good amount. I mean a person who have 1000 BTC is billionaire and defiantly he changes the whole graph of bticoin price if he wants, like if he sold his bitcoin with high price then the price of bitcoin rises, if he dump all hi bitcoin then bitcoin prices falls, china is the whale of bitcoin market and japan is on his way to become whale.

I agree with you . If we want to be the leader of a market, then we must have a lot of money, at least 2BTC to make the whales in the small trading floors and 200BTC for the large trading floors.

Yes it can but most probably i think hundred of btc are considered as a whale.

Exactly, whales are the ones who can change the price high to low and low to high. These are investors like everyone else but they invest not on hundred and tens of dollars rather their investments start from millions and end in billions. Often, the price plunging or sheer up is just because of transactions they do and that give profit to some average traders and for some it is loss.

but I think if only thousand btc is not already called as a whale because for me, a whale have more than 10k btc in many wallet and that person can play with the price. I think there are people or person that have more than 10k btc and he don't spend much his btc and only waiting for next high price.

That's simply somebody that has leverage in there exchanges to control them. There's quite a few around, our investment firm has quite a few with in it. It's the same thing in the real world, somebody that has enough leverage that they can buy at a company or buy a controlling interest in a company at a complete control over them.

That whale definition is about a person that have many bitcoins or other altcoins and once he pump or dump all his coins, it will makes the coin price changes drastically. That's why people always says the whales are doing it when somebody pump/dump the coin.

I'm not sure how many bitcoins need to be a whale because i'm not a whale, maybe around 20+ bitcoins you can call yourself a whale lmao.

It probably depends on how you invest and how much market manipulate that price. Yes you can be whale if you have 100BTC in market right now. You can change the whole price charts in coming days if you sell these bitcoins. You are being a whale can change the businesses of many people :P

Being a Whale is a big impact to the price of bitcoin, that's why if those Whales are going to manipulate the price make sure you are ready and you are always on the watch list of the bitcoin price. And also i have a feeling that those whales are going to move again when the next fork is going to happen this coming November.

A true whale will not only posses a large amount of cryptos/bitcoins but will have experience in the industry and have a vast knowledge in blockchain technology or the cryptos space in general.

The whale is a person / company that has a lot of funds to control a trade. Whale often appear in poloniex market. usually whale has funds around 100-1000 BTC or more.

My own definition of a whale are the guys that I need to pump my altcoin to the moon. I can spot many of them in polo and bittrex.

Whale is not bumper who use to do it. Actually they will be people im adoption and technically strong in blockchain and crypto coding who do the basic coding.
Try to invest on bitcoin to become a whale to bump the bitcoin price value.

As far as I know it is the big investors who can manipulate the trend of an Altcoins so they can increase the price. And it can also cost the price for a single moment. When the so-called whale is selling the price it can change an altcoins many people are caught up in here because the altcoins reasonably rise due to the purchase quantity here. But they did not know that it was the whales. So much is caught up and others are forced to sell their coins at low prices.

Your sentence is really confusing. We are talking on what is a whale. Bumper can still be considered as term on ability of them to pump prices and theres nothing to do with those coding stuffs that you do mention. Theres no connection on it.Investing on bitcoin on smaller amounts isnt considered as whale.If you do have thousand or hundreds of thousands then you can consider to call yourself a whale.

A whale is nothing more than a rich guy or bot that affects the market of a coin by simply buying over time when the price is low(accumulating) when he has bought enough usually they make an announcement that the coin is gonna moon, once people are affected they buy and buy till price of coin is doubled up or maybe trippled up, once the price is high enough a whale dumps the coin selling it and getting away with profits, the buyers who bought at high price have now made a loss since they sell it for a much cheaper price..

That's true. All those creatures that can affect the price of our assets are called whales. The word "whale" is used for millionaires to because of the huge amount they possess. Obviously, money is also a form of power so they are powerful guys who bring dramatic changes in market.

And they can make price charts following up or going down. You are right, power is money and money is power. They have power to change to the whole scenario of markets. Many times we see the price just plunge, it may involve loss of even one person that follow up throughout the market.

In my opinion, a whale is one who can pump or dump a coin single handedly. So it can be anyone with any coin. Bitcoin whale is one who has at least 50-100 BTC and uses them smartly.

I think that whales are people who hold about 5-10% ammount of bitcoins or some other altcoins. I cannot tell exactly how much it would be worth in bitcoin, but if they dump their 10% token, we will see a huge drop of price.

I think depend the volume and market cap of altcoin we are trading, we can call them are a whale or just is fish or shark or dolphin haha. But if you want know what is a whale normal, they need have 100-1000 BTC if want become to whale ;)

Yes this is up to the coin we're talking about. If we're talking about an altcoin with low volume, you can become a whale only with 5-10 bitcoin.

If we're talking about high volume altcoins, 50-100 bitcoin may not be enough.

to me i think in present time the effect of such whales on the price of bitcoin is now decreasing. i am sure that with the passage of time their impact will continue decreasing because i know with the the passage of time the users are of bitcoin are increasing and therefore they are making bitcoin more and more stronger by investing more and more money in bitcoin, i am hopeful that in future there will not such manipulating from the big whale to effect the price of bitcoin.

To me, the market is like a storm, it can take everything away. But if we have a solid home, a method to fight the winds, we can overcome it easily.

Well in my opinion you can consider yourself a whale when you own atleast 1000 btc (4 mill USD). In that case you are part of a very small percentage in the community.

Yes I'm also hoping in the future that the whale didn't have much more power to manipulate the market of bitcoin because the popularity of bitcoin become huge and it's users also want the bitcoin price become big and earn a good profit.

If you have 4000BTC you can definitely adjust the price of all altcoin in a short time and this really is very easy for them because they do not need to think much but to get information from these investors really hard.

In my personal of definition whale is the traders who can makes constant profit from trading activity, however the situation of the price for them price goes down or price goes up they always can makes money. I am not sure how much bitcoins be needed to be a whale, but the most important how many the constant profit from trading every day, week and month. That is big questions must be answered by traders than how much the amount of capital to be whale.

that's their job move and shake the market for their own benefits, whales are those who can influence certain moves if they played with any coins they make it sure that they will gain a lot its a big money involve to play with the market so for sure they have millions of money worth to become one.

In a normal explanation, a whale is a very big aquatic mammal that possesses lot of weight and occupies large space, so is also a whale in the market, someone or something that has a lot of coin and is a heavy investor.

               Yeah i probably agree with you. Honestly before when i was just starting here in trading or even in this forum, i doesn't really believe from those big time whales or something like that, but when honestly i have seen one of them face to face, therefore i concluded that they do really exist. At first i was so amazed because it is a pleasure to meet one, but at the same time i was being scared and started to realize that there are people out there that are really rich and doesn't scared to bet and gamble their money.

Bitcoin has whales too same with world trading game. They are a group of capitalists or investors that can control the trade value that might profitable for them in any trade and alike. They can buy huge amount of Bitcoin and sell into dropped value or higher. Whales can manipulate the sea and so as the market. Big whales has a major role on Bitcoin's success and they can also dump the value if they would have to.

there is no specific number that defines a whale, as long as you have a stack big enough to move the market and to increase/decrease fluctuation, you are considered a whale

whale is a person or company that has a stock or a lot of capital.
usually they are people who can control the price of a market.
capital needed to be a whale of about 100-1000BTC or more.

The capital doesn't really have to be at least 100 btc, it actually depends on a cryptocoins market cap. do you know that not all rich people can be a whale? but also an average

guy who's receiving decent income. for example, If a coins market cap is $10000 you can be a whale with $3000+. Low market caps are typically with newly released coins or

undervalued ones. the 1000+ btc can be used to more popular cryptocoins. being a whale is really nice as you can always influence the market

Although your comment very "normal" but it makes me cannot stop laughing haha. Whales on the market are people have a huge of money, maybe we cannot imagine that amount and they also controller our market, simple is that.

Lol... Do you think the traders who has large of money in bitcoins bitcoins always get money in every single positions of trading? I don't think so, they are not gods sometimes they must doing stop lost in trading. Because of they have big money doesn't mean they are never lose in trading, i am not sure they always made big profit but i am sure the bagholders can made constant profit from trading, there are no guarantee the the people who have much money will getting large of profit in trading, that is why i love trading poor and rich people has same chance in trading.

A whale is a person who owns a lot of capital, and is able to influence trade, whether to drop prices, or raise.

For me, Whale is a company or people that are really powerful. They are the ones that can influence the price of different coins and also they can change it. Those whale are owning of hundreds and thousands of BTC.

In a layman’s term, a whale is the biggest mammal on earth, and it is also an aquatic animal. But in the investment world, a whale is an heavy or should I say a loaded investor who holds a lot of stock and other commodities.

If you do have hundreds of thousand Bitcoin holdings for sure you would really consider that as a whale which would really affects price when they tend to dump those coins or even bought on big amounts.Whale is considered as a rich investor,company,cooperative which do have the funds to put on which do really affects prices when they decide to buy or sell a coin.

I think a whale is someone who has a huge financial capacity to buy a lump sum amount worth of for example bitcoins. I don't think they have specific amount of BTC but as long as the value of BTC they are holding can affect the trading then those people are considered to be whales. They control the pump and dump of coins.

The whale are the traders who has large of money in exchangers, they can manipulate the price be going up and going down, but they also can makes money in trading, usually they are full time in trading they doesn't have any other jobs except trading only. I am not sure to be whale must have large of bitcoins due to if we don't have any skills related trading, how much amount of bitcoins will be lost, to be whale is not about how many bitcoins be needed but how many bitcoins can be made on trading.

Whales in real meaning is a fish that swallow everything on the way it's swimming.
Whales in cryptos meaning is some group has power to control the price up or down . Then they will swallow all the people who is confusing about don't know sell or buy. HaHa

This one who is now very active in the market, due to the drop in the price of bitcoin. He buys, of course, not just one coin, having a lot of money, he can invest in a dozen coins, and he never fails, he knows how to minimize his risks.

Yeah you are correct. Whale is the person who have many bitcoins and have high capital. There are the influential one's that can change the price of the bitcoins and altcoins. Whales are the richest person in this cryptocurrency world.

What is a whale?
It is something that I have to catch :)

From articles of wikipedia about Ocean whale : " Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. They are an informal grouping within the infraorder Cetacea, usually excluding dolphins and porpoises. Whales, dolphins and porpoises belong to the order Cetartiodactyla with even-toed ungulates and their closest living relatives are the hippopotamuses, having diverged about 40 million years ago."

Whales in crypto : "The term “whale” is frequently used to describe the big money Bitcoin players that show their hand in the Bitcoin market. The ocean as a metaphor for the market is apt, since one can then extend it to include the big fish and the small fish; sharks; rallies as feeding frenzies; waves as market moves; and so forth. It may be, however, that the term “whale” has been applied to the wrong class of investor because the players described below are truly the biggest creatures in the ocean."

whales in cryptocurrency is a person who has a lot of BTC and the other Altcoin. They always hunt for little fish to eat, and they can do the market turmoil to make a profit for themselves. I make a profit from the whales  ;D ;D

I don’t think so if someone is getting a constant profit weekly, monthly and even yearly that will be a whale. What I have studied about whale, it is a person or can be group of individuals who have so huge investments in market that they can make the market price shaking.

In terms of a BTC holding, I would say a whale is probably at a value of at least 250 btc which is about 1m usd. But a whale is very dependent on which market you are trading in, you could be a whale in some markets with less than 1 btc.

I don't really know exactly what's the real amount but i understand whales to be the big olders of BTC. Big in the sense of when they decided any move, Whether go out or go inside the market. They make a very big impact when it comes to the situation of the market. They are the one who dictates the paces whether the market will be going down or going up.

A whale is a player or a trader who got a lot of money and they can buy a lot or bulk of the coins or even a major percentage of the supply of the coin and they are going into cheap coins because they got the power in that coin and they can manipulate the market and that is how they make a lot of bitcoins because of the power of being a whale.

My defination of whale is the person who have a huge amount of bitcoin or alt-coin.
The one who could affect the price if they want.

I would say 250 Bitcoins isn't a big whale in top coins but in some shitcoins they are definately considered as a whale. They not only knows when to buy but also to manipulate the market buy building fake walls. Simply buying in a large amount is necessarily not a whale we are talking about.

 Just like the name implies a whale being the largest creature in the ocean so is the whale in bitcoin markets.They are  those with  big money  say hundreds of thousands of bitcoins .They are mostly institutions.

To my knowledge, a whale in the trading world is a very wealthy person who can manipulates prices of some kind of altcoin in the market by injecting large amounts of capital into low-priced coins. build hype and increase prices. Once the prices have increased significantly, whales selling their pennies on the trading floor with huge profits, hurt many investors believing in the process. This involves another method called pump and dump. And those who are not experienced or new trader are more likely to be trapped and suffer losses

whales are kind of a myth. not that they do not exist, but them selling or buying wont move the market if there is noone following.
who move the markets are the sharks  ;D they join together and do pumps'n'dumps

But like you have said, they can't do anything alone, users have to follow. But I still think their influence on.market is a bit exaggerated and I think there are not so many whales people believe and they don't have so much Bitcoins people think they do.
Nevertheless I would like to know just for curiosity how much Bitcoins does the bigest whale has.

whales are people who have large capital and can play with the market, have the ability to increase and lower the market, not just one market, but almost all markets. I can not identify how many bitcoins we should have as whales but the point is that as long as you have big capital in fiat and bitcoin then you are the pope.

With the pump and dump most of the time are group of people who do it.

I think with 10 BTC you cannot control the market that is to little in my opinion.

I will consider a person a whale when they have a million dollars worth of Bitcoin.

A whale is the one who can shake our nerves by changing the price of this or that coin. He has clear goals, and ordinary users suffer. In fact, at the very beginning of bitcoin development people were getting high enough and now they just regulate the market for themselves.

hmm whale..
in my opinion , whale is people who buy more coin in Buy Order and use much ETH or Bitcoin , or other coin
so , if you see in Buy Order in major exchanges like Poloniex , HitBTC , CoinExchange and many more
and they buy with maybe 0.1 BTC ++ or 1 ETH ++ , its called "Whale"
*correct me if i'm wrong hehe

That is certainly not a whale.
Whale is someone who has 10000+ bitcoins and can fuck up the market.
You are wrong, that is a plankton. Whale eats plankton. I hope you will get the picture  :)

In my view users who keep hold of thousands of bitcoin or a large volume of bitcoin were termed to be a whale. These people tend to manipulate the price when they wish making a move as a large scale. Also sometimes they're the one who circulate FUD to make the small volume holders get into panic.

A whale is termed to a trader who has huge volume of bitcoins which is enough to manipulate the bitcoin price.smaller the market,greater the influence of big whales.Earlier when chinese dominated the BTC world with more bitcoins in their hand,they manipulated the price many times easily.But when bitcoin market grew wider having users all over the world,they lost their dominance.But in altcoin market where marketcap is very small,big whales frequently manipulate the altcoin prices.

People call someone a "whale" because of he/she has many coins like he have 10,000 bitcoins or even more and when he dump/pump the coins, it will creat a chaos on the market. There is no real definition of a whale though, whale also means he is a rich man that have many bitcoins/altcoins.

Whales are the only people with large capital that they can use to control the market. When they are on a buy or sell order they can lead to a sudden increase or a sudden drop.

Hmm that's a hard question, I think that someone is a whale if they at least own crypto's worth of 10k$ or 100k$

guess atm many whales don't have BTCs at all lol

Whales are the one who have the power to control the money in the market. One move from them can either pump or dump the coins. That's how powerful a whale is in the economy. But I know for sure, all our project can't go in vain.

Whales are the users having a strong affect on the market of a coin, they can manipulate the price of a coin by their combine effect. Keeping in sight the current worth of bitcoin, users having more than a hundred bitcoins are included in the list of whales, so i think to be in their list you should have at least one hundred bitcoins.

You can't buy a new car with $10K. $100K = apartment. Your logic = go to bank, take loan and you are a whale...is wrong.
I wouldn't say they don't have btc at all atm but they are probably whales with very low bitcoin amount  ;D

Whale is nothing but person who have a large amount of bitcoins. They have the power to control the price of coins in the market whether it goes high or low.

Wow, I didn't know whales actually exist here in this market. Yes, they are formidable because of large capital and are notable for their influence in the industry as well.

I don't think Whale is someone who has a lot of BTC. Whale is defined by the amount of influence and pressure one has on market. Just as whales in the sea occupy a dominant position to affect decisions of other. Similarly the whale in the market is someone who has a large share of market. One cannot just say that holder of certain BTC becomes a whale.

We will all be whales in a years time, and the more time that passes, the less BTC we'll need to be considered one.

I agree, a person can even be a whale even if he doesn't have crypto yet, but plans to buy some and announces his intent to do so. Like for example, Bill Gates suddenly announces that he will invest $1,000,000,000 on ETH then likely prices of ETH will go up or down depending on the market reaction. In that case, Bill Gates is a whale that need not use his cryptocurrencies yet but has greatly influenced the market just by his words.

Whale is someone has a big amount of Bitcoin maybe thousands Bitcoin. They can easily control the market, they can pump or dump the price of any cryptocurrency as they want. If you want to become a whale I think you should have at least 1000 BTC or maybe more :))

Whale is a person holds more than 500 BTC in his hands. There are different types of whales in the crypto market, the sharky ones are the most dangerous ones, they have less than 500 BTC but they make pump and dumps in low volume altcoins.

whale are amazing here are some incredible facts about whales and thier lives in the ocean whale a very large marine mammal with a streamlined hairless body horizontal tail,fin and a blowhole on top of the breathin as many as four generations of whales live together in some of these matrilineal groups scientist believe that now fewer than a hundred of the whale ply the water whales of both lineages are relatively common fossil in many marine deposits and whales are common around the islands they whaled at the water with thier paddles.

I think that the whale can be called a person who has more than a thousand bitcoins. With such amounts, you can already set the tone in the market for crypto-currency in conjunction with other whales.

it is someone who owns lots of crypto

Whale is a trader or a group that have a huge capital and they can control the price of Bitcoin and earn profit from that control.

A whale is a person who buys a large quantity of a certain coins. In our case in crypto world, when you bought greater than or equal to 1 BTC in one coin, you are already considered as a whale.

whale is a person or institution that holds huge amount of bitcoin that has a huge impact in price , when they dump a huge amount of bitcoin prices will go down but when they pump after they dump prices will rise up , whales mostly the miners and traders and the others are those who are the huge investors of bitcoins.

Correct. they hold tons of bitcoin in their disposal. And we heard so much about them manipulating the price. And just recently, individuals whales are starting to show up. Look at how the news lately, you will see personalities like Mike N and that Russian Billionaire (I forgot his name) admitting they have huge stash of bitcoins. Plus other personalities. You wouldn't heard them before. But since bitcoin is going up, they know self admit that they are bagholders.

There's still a lot of whales out there, trying to hide their identities through institutional investors. Maybe before they fear for their life or something. But I believed that they do can move the price literally, that's why they are called whales, which can move the ocean when they swim.

From the definition of what I everybody have given, it just seem that every one of us can be referred to as whale. In a case where price is rising and threads encouraging people to buy more, the moment we move in that direction which then further increase the price of bitcoin, then we have all agreed to influence price and the same thing goes for when price of bitcoin is falling. For the fact that we all agree to pursue a particular decision with the objective to influence price, we are all whale.

When we said whale it means those are the investors that creates a material impact in the price of bitcoin, just like what is happening right now that for sure some whales are selling their bitcoin that is why the price now at the moment dropped by $1100, but don't panic for sure some whales are also waiting for this price for them to buy more.

I think in my own understanding about it "WHALE" is an illustration to those people who is Rich or wealthy type of a person that has an authority to control the capacity volume market in trading industry in terms of value. Meaning these are the big investors in bitcoin industry :)

To become a whale you must have at least 1 000 bitcoins to be able to manipulate the marketplace. Yes it is a lot of money in our days but couple of years ago was something else.

on how many bitcoin that you have for it is better to have that atleast a lot of bitcoin for me this is where you may test on how rich you are and as of now we can see the thing of possibility on how wealth you are can be for.

It doesn't just have to be many bitcoins, a whale is someone who has enough btc to affect the market. We're talkig about probably millions of dollars here. Volatility can be caused by these people who manipulate the movement of cpins through pumping and dumping

For me whale is a large investors who have huge influence to the crypto currency industry. These are the people that gives life to the digital world, I guess without them bitcoin will not fluctuate clearly and can't become famous in the world.

Moreover thru helps of that whales bitcoin will get their popularity in crypto currency world.

What do you think, is the biggest miners are the whales? Or the traders only?
I think that both kinds are comparable.

I also disagree that "a whales" are interested in BTC popularity: that means growing numbers of competitors. They might be interested in slow growth of crypto popularity, but totally not the boom.

Bitcoin whales are people or the groups which possess a huge amount bitcoin and can influence market.

A whale is like God for the unsophisticated trader. A guy nobody has ever seen but must surely be responsible for all my losses.
 :D

Well, cyptocurrency has been their passion or they have seen a great  potential earnings in it so we cannot blame them if they want to buy as much as they can or if they want to earn as much as they want, we can do it as well if we really want to, don't be envious with them as they deserve it because they truly believe in this opportunity.

Who has a much amount of a coin and can have a great effect on market

You can understand simply that the whales are people whom has huge capital to dump or pump the price as they want, they have ability to control the price of any coins or token on the market. If you wanna become a whale I think you must have thousand BTC at least to be able to control the price of the coin you want.

Whales to me are very wealthy investors capable of manipulating and controlling the value of an altcoin or even bitcoin at their will. Whales are the main reason for strong fluctuations during this time as profit taking activities at high prices and buy at low prices. For small investors I think you can only survive in this market if you invest in the whale trend, otherwise you will lose.

Your right whale is a solely person who have high amount of interest to invest in any crypto currencies. Moreover as per my opinion more crypto currencies are looking whales because they want to increase the status of their crypto in the market. More developers looking for a whale because it was one of the huge investors who can help with them to promote their crypto or ICO's in the digital currency community.

the whales are people who go big and buy with huge capital but how many btc one need to become a whale it depends in coin I guess, so if you are into waves for example you would need more than 100btc to be a whale there but if you are investing in a coin with small volume than even 10btc is ok to be a whale of that coin.

A whale is a person who have lots of money and is able to manipulate a market. It may be, however, that the term “whale” has been applied to the wrong class of investor because the players described below are truly the biggest creatures in the ocean. whale is frequently used to describe the big money Bitcoin players that show their hand in the Bitcoin market. The ocean as a metaphor for the market is apt, since one can then extend it to include the big fish and the small fish; sharks; rallies as feeding frenzies; waves as market moves; and so forth.

The whale are those are the group of big players who cultivate the circulation of cryptocurrency,sometimes they could manage a marketing strategy  that either they would dump the value of all coins and in the end they buy rhem into a  lowest price and sell it into the highest price.becoming a whale we dont know how much of asset do you need to become one of them,but in my own thinking they are the groups of richest people in the world, that compose of all big people in the world of industry.

"Whale" in the dictionary is an animal that kills his own kind of underwater. On this forum, whale refers to the investor or the big boss who owns a huge amount of cryptos, capable of manipulating rates on the cryptocurrencies market. At the present time, if you own more than 100 BTCs congratulations you joined the whale team :))

By now I don't know how many early adopters of Bitcoin are still in possess of their coins - I believe most of them would probably have sold most of their coins on the way. So current whales are probably more likely to be speculators. Early adopters who still have their coins are likely to not move them. And usually people would call a BTC whale someone who has an active presence in the market, so that he can be "perceived" as a whale. Trust me, I am the Whalehunter :)

Yes, thats the definiton related with cryptocurrency and there is other definition too related other aspect.
However, we are in cryptocurrency then thats more than enough about definition. Regarding how much, its not pretty sure. I think we need more than 25% minimum of the total supply of bitcoin.

this is the most consistent answer among those,whaler must have 10,000 bitcoin to be categorized..this users manipulating the market so the pumps and dumps happens.they are the responsible of what is happening in this community.

whale is some one who has lot of financial power to manipulate the prices of altcoins specially where volumes are less. Anyhow whales fight each other also....

Hahahaha yes he may be responsible for everything that can happen to you in this world of crypto. Whales are basically the traders like others, but they got some serious nerve over mining, and thus they got plenty of bitcoins under their control, like they bought them. This much bigger number of bitcoins for one trader, this will enhance the chances for them to control the market price of bitcoins.

He's not actually but you  :) the trader itself because you are responsible for your money and you're the one that spend your money on trading. Whales is just another trader or our opponent in this crypto. The control depends on circulation and its co whales with his group.

Whale is a person who have enough crypto to manipulate market.
I don't know how much crypto do you need to become a whale but it may be more than one thousand btc.

A whale is someone with a shitload of money.

You can start anywhere from 1.000 BTC upward. But to be hoenst a real whale will have 5-6 figures of BTC.

A whale is a reference to the trader who causes massive fluctuation in the price of the BTC and changes the track of the market. Usually, a whale is someone who plays the 'pump and dump' phenomenon. A whale holds a large share of BTC, I would consider one capable of pumping at least 1000 BTC into the market. The whale will sell all the 1000 BTC at the smallest price in the market or a price smaller than the market price. When all start buying the coins, eventually the price of BTC will fall.

Now accompanying this fall, there are a lot of people who 'panic sell' their coins. They may require immediate fiat currency or that they may imagine the BTC market to crash. In such a scenario they sell and the value of BTC falls further low. At this new low, the whale, scoops up all the 1000 or more BTC and makes thousands of dollars profit.

Assume one BTC is worth a 10000$. If a whale sells 1000 BTC all at once, the price rapidly falls especially accompanied by panic selling. If the price falls to 8000$ or 7000$, the whale again now buys more than a 1000 BTC. Now for the 1000 BTC he recovered, he made a profit of 3000$ per BTC which is 3 Million Dollars profit in a very short span of time! That is indeed a whale that causes great apprehension among the fishes in the sea of Bitcoin market.

In general speaking whale is those people who do have the capability or do have big funds to control or affect something since he do have the money to spend on. Either a single person or on a group which a whale can be described. Manipulating price or market can really be done with this big boys which is common since there are people who do have lots of bitcoins from their own stashes.

It's how people in here call big traders, these who manipulate the market.

Really? I am not quite sure about that. As far as I know, the term of "whale" has been connected to the big player of the market. How come one person that own 100BTC can dictate the market? Whales are the heavyweight players who can control the market and can manipulate price if they want.

I only know that a whale is a person that has much of balance in bitcoin and altcoin so he can move the price too low or too high and he can follow the price wherever the price wants to go. maybe more than one thousand of bitcoin is a big whale and I see in the market, there are too many people that have much of bitcoin.

From the definition of what I everybody have given, it just seem that every one of us can be referred to as whale. In a case where price is rising and threads encouraging people to buy more, the moment we move in that direction which then further increase the price of bitcoin, then we have all agreed to influence price and the same thing goes for when price of bitcoin is falling. For the fact that we all agree to pursue a particular decision with the objective to influence price, we are all whale.

Having thousands of bitcoins can be considered as a whales basing just on the current price of bitcoin even theres still even more who do hold up ten of thousands or even more.No one really knows on each person totally holds up lots of money. They can really go to the prices as they want either dump or pump on a certain coin and having that kind of money will really make directions as he pleases.

What is a whale? For my i know whale is a very large marine mammal with a streamlined hairless body, a horizontal tail fin, and a blowhole on top of the head for breathing

Now i know what is whale. I always heard to my friends that word.coz some of my friends called the other who have a high profit in crypto.now i know

Whale is reffered to an individual or group of people that can manipulate the market using their massive crypto wealth, The prescence of whale can be seen when a token experienced an escalated price in a short time span and suddenly dies out as quick, it skyrocketed, The price surge may not have occured due to news or actual reason but due to the existence of whale, Once the price spikes reaches a desired level, They begin to dump by selling all their holdings.

Whales are those who can move the market. People with 5000+ BTC or more are those considered whales. Man they are real big time.

The favorable position for being a whale is you can control the market cost and play with it as often as possible and for turning into a whale you ought to have Flexible adjust to conceal some great exchanges on the coin you wanted particularly with bitcoins, And I don't know on what is the impediment of being a whales since to the extent I know the dependably victor on the exchange is those individuals who have tremendous pocket to exchange on.

The whale is the market participant who has more than 1000 bitcoins. If a market participant has a smaller number of bitcoins, then this is a dolphin. This is my personal classification and you can not agree with it.

A whale has to be defined in relation to the trading environment.

On a small exchange, a person selling 3 BTC of a cryptocurrency can definetly be a whale.
On a huge exchange, it might have to be 300 BTC though...

What makes a whale is the possibillity of obvious price manipulation.

The term whale is often used to describe a individual or community with huge financial resources and capital that can influence the prices of these coins in respect to this market.It is also speculated that there are group of whales that manipultes the bitcoin prices and can create pump and dump situation in market.They influence the direcrion of prices in market.But in small exchange a person with less capital can be termed as whale whereas in large exhange huge capital resources are required to be categorized under this section.

I agree that the whale is called the holders of a large number of funds in the crypto currency. but In some cases, they do very badly with other coin holders, since they are unfairly influencing the market with their capabilities .

Whale is a kind of person who hold a large number of that coin to speculations for making their own profits.
They can control the price in their hand with that advantage easily and the victims of them are the panic selling and small investors, they're all be swallowed by the whales immediately.

The term is using in BTC which means a big capital, big money Bitcoin players that show their hand in the Bitcoin market. Has been applied to the wrong class of investor because the players described below are truly the biggest creatures. The largest players have to stagger and obscure their market entries by splitting large trades into hundreds or thousands of small orders.

It comes to be a person that having a large amount of bitcoins in trading like a real whale that is large who can eat all the small time traders. Technically this whales are capable or they can make the market move up or down by theie ownself. For me to be called a whale they have to be atleast 50btc.

We really do have funny guys on this thread and I really appreciate for making me to laugh after reading your post. However, I do not have up to 1000 bitcoins but please, I am not a dolphin ;D … 1000btc is actually a lot anyway, and usually a whale is someone who has a lot of stake in the market to be able to move it in their direction, and it does not have to be only btc. At least, I am happy to be a whale in one of the altcoins that I invested in during the ICO and it feels good though. Also, one thing is that whales sometimes usually come together to make a collective decision in the market.

250 BTC, but normally the term 'whale' is often referred as a group of wealthy bitcoiners that attempts to manipulated a certain coin in the market for their own financial gain.

It seems to me that 50 Bitcoin is too small to have the status of a whale. Apparently, such opportunities are not enough for new users. These are the people who started working with Bitcoin at the beginning of his birthday.

Maybe to be a whale must have a lot of BTC, and as a whale we should be able to do market movements, and should know how we can eat small traders, maybe being a whale is not easy and certainly requires a lot of experience, not just have some BTC that's my opinion .

I think it dependa which country are you from because in mine 50 BTVC is already a big amount of money if you will convert it to fiat. And yes mostly of the whales are those who was able to bought btc when it was very cheap and of course expert traders also have a lot of bitcoin with them and the rich people. Mostly whales are the one who manipulate the market and they are the people who can essily make a coin move either up and down.

Whales are those big time investors in crypto currency market, maybe its a group of people and not just a single person. They are the one who cause manipulation of some coin value in the market. I think you need to have at least 100 btc to be called whales.

Whales don't play with BTC, they control it with their Money Power. Bitcoin just assets that they controlled by Much Money.
You can see Mt.Gox example, and i dont know Mt.Gox can we said it as Whale?

I think the whales are always camouflaged and anonymous to this world. We invest in the market later, which means dependency and default. No one can predict and avoid whale deterrents or pumps.
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He is shit, full shitty minded person with out checking the market movement. He completely vanished the all the crypto currency market. If the bitcoin needs to steady in the market big investor means they have to help the bitcoin price bumps up.

Whale is actually learn the marketplace movement and help it go bigger. Instead he puts down the market place go cheaper.

A whale on the crypto world is refering to some people or organizations who invest a big amount of bitcoin, so huge like a literal whale that if they withdraw it all, it affects the value of it. Admit it or not, they are somehow manipulating the value to increase or decrease it to earn more profit.

A big whales that can move the crypto market either in a dump or pump one. Those are the great hodlers of coins here that can help us to make money. Cryptocurrency are compose of so many big whales and hopefully their goal is to make bitcoin at a higher price again.

The term ‘whale’ is a little ambiguous, but I would define it as somewhere in the 1000 Bitcoins range. With current prices for Bitcoin, that’s around 8 million dollars. You could maybe define is as something smaller but the point of the term whale is someone in that has enough to manipulate or influence the market. It has to be a large number to have that affect.

The bitcoin whale is frequently used to describe the big money Bitcoin players that show their hand in the Bitcoin market. They show themselves in the exchanges with orders of 1000 BTC, every now and again. Therefore, they can manipulate the market.

I know if the pope is someone who has a large capital in the trade of a coin and they can set the price of a single coin with it. at least they have 1000 btc even more.

I think they have more than 1000 btc and I am sure that most of them are in the bitcoin world since the beginning and now they still keep their bitcoin for another year. and they can easily to make the price increase or decrease but I don't think that all of them wants to do this because I think they still want to make a profit from bitcoin and another coin.

Yes. As long as you have all the money to buy in as much as possible to hold a huge position in that market, then that makes you a whale. The essence is just to use your position to control the market and I have actually dreamed of being one anyway. Most whales are good at what they do, and they try as much as possible to throw out some patterns after accumulation to make the traders and other investors to fall in, so they are more like market controllers and they never lose.

People with more than 1000 Btc , There are a lot of Whale in Btc market , most of them bought or mined bitcoin when it was cheap , it must feel really good to be a whale I'd like to try it!

I think we have little information about Asian whales. They have a lot of crypto currency and they can strongly influence the market. China has repeatedly demonstrated this. South Korea looks like the engine of a bull market and Japan has a high acceptance of cryptocurrency.

Yeah, liquidity in a market or a particular exchange also matters anyway but except the market is only available on a particular exchange, that is when being a whale on that exchange may work, but at the same time, low volume exchanges can be very hard to penetrate or make any impact as a whale as you will really need a big market, but I feel you though, in a very good trend, it can be an easy thing to do.

The whale is a group that plans or groups what coin they are raising, the whales are many members, and they're a lot to invest, many coin they get to increase it.

I think in bitcoin whales are the heavyweight palyers who move the market and can manipulate the price of the market if they want depending on the amount of money they  invest in the business.

It is not only in BTC as you can be a whale even in an altcoin market. As long as you are big player in any market, it makes it easy for you to control that market to your favor based on the perception you want other traders to have to enter the market. When you see a whale at work, you will always know. All the above, sometimes, unless you are really holding a very large one, most whales always come together to make that possible anyway, so I do not usually see it as a one man thing for a big market.

There are no definite amounts for you to be considered a whale but one thing is for sure, you have to own a substantial amount of Bitcoin so as to affect the Bitcoin market when you decide to sell your Bitcoins or when you are eager to buy a huge share in the availability of Bitcoins in circulation.

Whales, as used in this business, can either be people, partnership, corporation or any entity, that owns a substantial amount of Bitcoin. Generally, they are into Bitcoin because they would like to influence the market when they buy and sell for their own benefit. Through their acts, the average investors may greatly benefit from it or may substantially lose a huge amount of sum of money.  

a whale is the investor's in cryptocurrency with huge of amount of bitcoin, whales as i understand a big noss or the millionaire investing huge of amount in the world of virtual cryptocurrency and difficult to give an amount how many bitcoin hold in theirs hand become whale because in my opinion whales are millinaire.hav ecapability to many bitcoin how much he/she want to bought.

Yeah not only in the term of bitcoin but i think whales are a group of capitalists or investors that can control the trade value that might profitable for them in any trade and alike. They can buy huge amount of Bitcoin and sell into dropped value or higher. Whales can manipulate the sea and so as the market. Big whales has a major role on Bitcoin's success and they can also dump the value if they would have to and on the other sense we can say that they control the price to pump or dump.

just take the example for the sea whales are the big fishes extreme big in size and can eat any other fish. Now, apply the same thing on crypto whales in crypto are athe gaint investor or in other words (venture capitals) these are the people who hold a large quantity of a coin or btc and can easily fluctuate it at any time . crypto martket isnt that big still in billion dollar marketcap so anyone can become a small whale with handsome money.

Whales are traders who can move the market, lol if you trading on a big exchange, you might need over 100BTC to move a small low cap coin lol anyway I don't know because am not even a tilapia

Whales are rich in the financial markets, they can dominate a kind of property at their will. Their investment is bad news for small investors to sell at very low prices then buy and release good news to push prices up and sell at good prices. Most of the market movements in recent times have been influenced by whales.

WHALE is another term for the Big investors that controls or manipulate the whole market they are the cause of big movements of the market even shitcoins they can pump is just a minute, One of the role of the whales are to let other investors ride on their tactics to get more profit after a big pump they can easily dump it but sometimes they're supporting coins that is good for other investors, It takes hundreds or thousands of Bitcoins to become a whale or to control the market.
They are the some of the reason of Hype and Fake pumps to attract investors as you see some of the coins are pumping so hard and after that day it goes down again.

Its almost the same with ocean whale. In case with cryptocurrency, a whale can influence the direction of trading most especially with a cryptocurrency with a small market base. There are also news that a group of whales can in fact manipulate the trading direction for Bitcoin.

yes, the whale can make an impact with the price in the market and I think they can make the price is up and down although they can control the market. the whale can buy many coins at the same time and of course, they can buy with a big budget and only wait for a while. although the price increases for a small price, they can make a big profit. but I don't know the truth about the whale can also manipulate the price or the trading because they have a big fund in every market.

In my own definition of whale, they are those groups who sell or buy an altcoins or bitcoins in a huge price that can be the cause of a coin to dump or jump too much. Sometimes, they also give announcements in telegram channels or discord channel of what altcoins are they going to buy and if you have enough funds to trade , it is better to buy with them in order for you to make big profits and money.

Whale is a big player that can move the market and manipulate it according to his needs, it can be a single person or also can be a group of people who collaborate with each other for making profit. Whale definition is vague and can mean different things in different markets, like to manipulate the price of ethereum market you would need to have more than 100 bitcoins at least, but for small cap markets like those coins having market less than $20 million then you can be a whale even with about 20 to 30 bitcoins.

I don't really know exactly what's the real amount but i understand whales to be the big olders of BTC. Big in the sense of when they decided any move, Whether go out or go inside the market. They make a very big impact when it comes to the situation of the market. A whale is the one who can shake our nerves by changing the price of this or that coin

You need to dominate the market with hundreds of millions of dollars. Here, a single man can affect the price with a million dollar worth bitcoins. Of course it has to be an altcoin that hasn't got a huge 24h volume, that is pretty good amount. I mean a person who have 1000 BTC is billionaire and defiantly he changes the whole graph of bticoin price if he wants

Exactly, whales are the ones who can change the price high to low and low to high. These are investors like everyone else but they invest not on hundred and tens of dollars rather their investments start from millions and end in billions, I don’t think so if someone is getting a constant profit weekly, monthly and even yearly that will be a whale

I agree with you whale is a  group can be made many investors or traders With huge funds affecting the market Their investments are divided into major exchanges that affect prices & bitcoin whales could also have a disproportionate impact on prices ; Usually dump and try drops the price for buy cheap

Bitcoin whales are notorious market traders, and most people usually point to individuals or groups that make waves behind the scenes!

The number of BCT can range from 1000 to 10,000, some even more.

It is quite simple. If you have such big amount that with your one move, either sell or buy, market can be shaken, you are a whale.

There is no limit or criteria for a trader to become whale. This can be a single person or group of traders who have same joint goal and working at same thing. These whales have such a strong impact on international market that they can destroy much of it at once

whales are those who take some of their biggest investments and move on to some altcoins that keep prices up and down in the market

Whales are big names in the bitcoin industry and they can control the Bitcoin market. Or perhaps the whales may also be a group that can become many investors or traders who have huge capital to influence the market. Their investment is divided into major exchanges that affect prices.

I think it's a whale with a lot of coins. It's like a whale is huge, but whales can hurt some smaller investors because they have a strong price control, which is for smaller investors. Should always be vigilant!

it could be a big name but I am sure that there is any person that doesn't want to reveal his identity to the public but he has a big amount of bitcoin in his wallet. and for this, I think we can call him as a whale and he can buy all of the coins without having trouble. and not just in bitcoin, I think in another coin too because we know that sometimes there are many people which have a big amount of each coin in the market so we can call them as whales too.

It was given already to the smart guys who own big stacks of bitcoins or any other altcoins because their acct will be prone to hacking or attention to the bad guys who wants to have more money. Whales haven't stick to bitcoin only as we know money is much easy to earn in other alts so they are more aware with that.

Whales in the crypto market are like billionaires. They hold a lot of assets and they can control the market their way. They can make the market go down very quickly and can make the market recover. We are living on the whale's state and we should be careful with their moves. Keep up with the news and do not be slower than others.

Whale is a metaphorical image of the rich. They hold in their hands hundreds, thousands of bitcoins and they have control over the entire cryptocurrency market. The whales are very powerful and you have to update the information for hours to get a sense of the whale's next plan. That will help you identify the market in the next few hours.

It has so many BTC that it can decrease or increase the BTC price in the market. The amount of required BTC for a whale may change by the volume of the market and the exchange.

Whale is nothing but a person or a group who can influence the crypto-coin value significantly. They targets the coin and invest suddenly so that the price of the coin increase surprisingly. And by this surprising growth the normal traders thought that the coin is doing well or some time they just invest by seeing a coin in green, that eventually makes a coin value grow further. And when those guy called 'whale' feel it as enough he withdraw his total investment without any indication. which make the coin fall down again. That's way the manipulate the crypto-coin market.
 

I do not know how many BTCs we will become whales. But I understand whales are the people who hold many BTC they have the ability to manipulate the market when selling BTC out or buy into BTC. Thus BTC prices will fluctuate up or down as they want. These are whales that people often say.

No one can defind it accurately besides having a lot of bitcoins can be a win win situation for anyone or a group of whales. Whales can have many bitcoins as they want because of handling or controlling over the market no Technical analysis can define when they will going to make a sudden changes to flip the situation.

Well whale is someone or some group of people who have the financial capacity to pump and dump the market and drive the markets sentiments in there best interest.

Any amount that will be enough to manipulate the market is the required amount. And anyone who has that amount is a whale. Whales are actually good for the crypto markets as they bring volatility and this volatility is what attracts more than half the people currently in crypto.

It could be simply define as bulky sellers of bitcoin with such a very big amount that can affect or demolish altcoin markets as easy as bitcoin. Also, it affects circle of minor traders or smaller traders with a minimal number of trading system. They can sell as much as possible of their stake that of course can cause the price of cryptocurrency to dump by oversupplying. Besides, they own a lot of cryptocurrency so they are more powerful than others. It may be an individual or set of members that has the authority to deal with market using a huge crypto bounty. Therefore, whatever amount you have right now, treasure it don't just decide right away when you feel that the market is slowly in progress.

but some time they make market partisipant being panic while they sold their asset.manipulating price and make some time they make bad rumors to get lower price and take advantaged from other.

They are those who hold bigger portion or share on a coin, tho I don't think whales can refer only to an individual that brings volatility,  there were times that that are groups who did hype on some coin, who are cooperating to dump or to pump some alts.

in my opinion. whale is a trader who has a very large capital. he can control the price round of one of the coins. To be a whale you should at least have more than 200BTC

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Nice definition about whales. :). Thanks for reminding us. I guess its advantage to be a small smal at the back of the whales.

Whales are the market takers, they hold large amounts of BTC or they have huge capital resources. When they see a very high BTC price they will sell their BTC rushing to the market and when they sell the BTC, the BTC price will drop, after falling to the point that they may continue to buy large amount of BTC. This will push up prices. That's the whale's trick.

living beings are great and kind and help neighbors and whales not just help same-sex. if we become pope we will certainly have great strength and rich but have a good heart and likes to help others with btc that we have in accordance with my understanding.

Yes, whale is the title given to a person who is holding a large amount of any digital coin as he proves to be a very rich person and the digital market is somehow dependent on the moves of this whale community. They can really change the weather in the world of crypto coins. Whenever there is a big selling out or investment by these guys, the market fluctuates. It rises up whenever money is spend on coins and goes red otherwise.

I can define the whale that you are talking about is the persons who have so much power to manipulate the price of cryptocurrencies. The whales are the reason why there are pumps and dumps that are happening in the cryptocurrency market.

Well, adding some information about whales would be considered as a big capitalist in cryptocurrency today investing money with million dollars into bitcoin and any of those potentail coins in alternate cryptocurrency which the result is becoming biggest correction issues in world trade digital market in which the price are so low.

This does not depend on the chips in hand. Only the person or team that controls the market price is called a whale.

I think whales refer to groups that have large amounts of bitcoin, or exchanges. They can manipulate this market. They can withdraw and sell the market and promote market sentiment in the most favorable way.

If you are in a group of friends that only own a single digit of Bitcoin holding, then you are already a whale if you are holding some 20 Bitcoins. But if you only own a total of 20 Bitcoins, then you are only a small fingerling to a group of Bitcoin fans who own at least 100 Bitcoins. What I mean, apparently, is that the term whale is relative. But there is always a whale above every single whale. And these are those who own thousands of Bitcoins. 

In my opinion, the whales can be traders, investors or groups of people with budgets comparable to thousands of bitcoins. Accordingly, they can afford to buy and sell for huge sums and thus influence the prices of coins in the cryptocurrency market.

For me, a whale is someone who had a large amount of holdings to a particular token. Let’s say YOLO tokens for example, if that guy had bought 5 billion YOLO while others are having low holdings, he can control and manipulate the minds of others either by buying or selling.

Assuming that he bought YOLO at 50 satoshi and selling it at 100 satoshi, and he chooses to dump 25% of his holdings and ends up at just 25 satoshi by creating separate selling orders, it would make newbies and average joes to dump their own as well until it reaches targeted low price for that whale to buy more YOLO to increase his holdings.

The same thing goes to the other coins or tokens that you are holding. You will have a big advantage if you are a whale by playing the minds of the average traders if they keep holding or just dump them all. Just my two satoshis.

In the world of crypto currencies, there are certain individuals whom you can call big whales and that is because of the reason that they have invested a huge amount of money into this and that they are just like the biggest stakeholders of the crypto market and they can affect the crypto market in so many ways. They can lift as well as can lift down the market value of any of the coin.

probably whale is the largest animal in the world so the word "whale" use here to understand largest, I,e who has a large capital. I don't know how much btc holder is called whale. probably it 500 btc or more.

I think the pope is just a title for many bitcoin owners and controls some of the price in bitcoin or you can say as a trading player that has a lot of capital. it is according to my knowledge, may be different from the assumption of others.

For me a crypto whale is a person with a million dollar worth of crypto either BTC or any major alts. A group of whales has a capability of shaking the market or change the price direction either going up or going down.

Today, BTC long whales, and short whales are battling for the BTC price. Lets see who will win. If the BTC longs wins. We will see BTC at $33k this coming July. If not, BTC will crash to 1k

Besides that they are the one that creates a big impact with the price or the value of bitcoin, if they buy the tendency is the price moves upward but when they cash out it all then the price will go down, it depends on how much they are investing, the advantage of it is if the market goes up then the people get to encourage more.

Whales are people, who have the greatest amount of cryptocurrency and they can affect the market. here is the video about whales:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C76dlWSwSxM

I will call someone a whale if he has more than 1000 btc because with this amount, he can follow every coin without a problem and he can do buy and sell in anytime. and if somehow he wants to lift up the price, he can place an order to makes the market moves into the price he wants. we can see this is happening at every time when the price running to go up and down and makes the traders confuse about what they should do.

To me, a whale is someone who has enough BTC to move or manipulate the market, these are pump who pump and dump  many altcoins out there and I think they determine or drive price in particular markets.......guess how much you need to do that

Whale are those who have much number of bitcoins that have control in bitcoin. Yes, quite unfair to learn but yes! They have the ability to manipulate the  bitcoin market. They are the reason why bitcoin is high and then suddenly gets high.
As with the required capital, I am not certain it.

Yes it is just a metaphor that is used here in this domain to compare different traders. All those who have invested so much in bitcoins that with their one move, bitcoins start moving here and there, can be referred to as whales.

These persons have different mindset and majority times, they don’t give a shit about profits of others. They are mainly focused to their personal interests.

Obviously, whales are the greedy one here. We all know how easy for them to manipulate the market whenever they want and they're always hungry for profit. And in return traders are just like robot than following whatever these whales want to do. Also they can also spread fuds all over the community and ready to pay whatever the cost of it.

A whale for me is a big creature in the sea just joking haha but it could be the same definition if you look closely.  Whale is a certain person having huge amount of coins that can manipulate the market.  It can be a single person or a group of people.

 according to all my friends a whale is a big investor that can invest a big amount in her/his chosen coins. a whale is a very rich person that can manipulate a price of a coins that he chose.

The term “whale” is frequently used to describe the big money Bitcoin players that show their hand in the Bitcoin market. The ocean as a metaphor for the market is apt, since one can then extend it to include the big fish and the small fish; sharks; rallies as feeding frenzies; waves as market moves; and so forth. It may be, however, that the term “whale” has been applied to the wrong class of investor because the players described below are truly the biggest creatures in the ocean.

***BITCOIN DOLPHINS
They show themselves in the exchanges with orders of 1000 BTC, every now and again, and the common perception seems to be that the orderbook “whales” are the heavyweight players who move the market and can manipulate price if they so desire. However, this view is inaccurate.

The fact is that there are even bigger players than the so-called whales, who do not engage in the Bitcoin market via the dinky web interfaces the exchanges offer us, the “retail market” (small fish).

*** BITCOIN WHALES
bitcoin whaleThe large players being referred to are institutions such as Hedge Funds and Bitcoin Investment Funds. Some of these funds have announced their presence in the water:

   + Pantera Capital
   + Bitcoins Reserve
   + Binary Financial
   + Coin Capital Partners
   + Falcon Global Capital
   + Fortress
   + Bitcoin Investment Trust
   + Global Advisors Bitcoin Investment Fund
Others have yet to put oar to water…

   + Bitcoin Index Fund
… and others may or may not exist, depending on your sources and the reach of your sonar.

These funds typically manage hundreds of thousands of bitcoins, which they strategically and covertly put through the exchanges via special arrangement – out of sight and obscured from regular retail traders.

With their large capital mass, institutions can move the market at will. It is here where the metaphor of a Bitcoin Whale comes into its own because any other inhabitant of the ocean must simply get out of the way, or be moved forcefully. Additionally, no current is strong enough to deflect the whale from its course, so its intention becomes the way.

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Well, whales are the investors who are holding a great volume of the currency and regulates the market. With the possession of enough btc, they have the ability to manipulate the market as they can make the market to move in the way which they want.
That is why a drastic fluctuation in the price is often observed all because of them...

To be a whale, you have to exchange all your bitcoins for dollars and spend them, otherwise all bitcoins can depreciate and you will sit with digital garbage in your hands.

It depends and i think there's a group of whales who are doing a pump and dump that can cause a too unpredictable market condition. In addition having a big amount of bitcoins it is hard to take advantage at them. So what we can do is to follow them or to observe the market that which can you make profit.

Whale is define as a person in the crypto community that are so wealthy in their lives in crypto. They might own 1k btc worth of all asset or more! I know 1 people that owns 14k of btc. That's big.

In my own observation as some people are called a whale in crypto currency or trading platform since they are a big investors that holding a very huge amount of tokens and bitcoins and thats the reason why they are called whales.

As far as i understand in they called whale is there are some group that they talk all together and pick a few coins and buy they combine all there money in one holder and talk which coins they will invest. Some also are indevidual and this people are holding a very huge amount of money to be a whale itself.

All in all, they are people who can greatly affect the market price of bitcoin and that's for sure! We know that bitcoin cannot be controlled especially its price because it is directly affected of several factors like the supply and demand factor, the popularity and interest of people and etc. But these people are able to because they have the funds for it. If you really are going to think about, they can sell which will greatly affect the market causing it to dump then they can buy more once the price is completely low which will affect the price positively. I can barely imagine the process here but one thing for sure is, they are gaining profit by doing this.

Whales somehow control the price and says to paid some groups to create FUDS so they will be able to buy coins at the lower price. There are more whales investors that joined in crypto now due to its potential investments.

Whale is a biggest mammal in the ocean, lol.
But if serious, its a guy, who has tons of capital and who has significant fluence on market.

Good day, if you want to more about whale, https://blockonomi.com/what-is-a-whale/ 

In my opinion, Whale is what you called to a person or group of people who has the great amount of Bitcoin that can drastically affect the price of Bitcoin or Altcoins if they will invest or withdraw. They can easily influence the price by doing pump and dump whatever they want.
We will be very lucky if they will pump the price that you are invested in and vice versa.

A whale is a person who has lots of bitcoin and can manipulate the market easily with his bitcoin like buying specific coins with all his bitcoin and make the price pump. In a simple world, a whale is a person who has the good impact on the market and can move the market.

I will call someone whale if they have 1 million dollar worth of btc. No matter btc they have because the trade is againts dollar. Maybe in 2014 i will called some one whale if he have 2000 btc but today when some one have 200 btc he can called as whale. And the real whale sometimes did not talk too much at forum. They pretend dont have btc.

Whale represents the person who holds a lot of bitcoins/altcoins that can change the market value 30-40% of its current price. Big whales also are those responsible in manipulating the market. You should learn how to ride with them even if you're small investor.

Whale is a person or institution that have a large amount of money to control the market for profit. They also have access of mainstream media to spread FUD and rumor in order to manipulate the price.

I think holding BTC 100K BTC is considered as a whale in my opinion.

whale is frequently used to describe people who have large amounts of bitcoins and try to manipulate prices in a market by selling or buying in bulk.

A whale is an individual or group of individuals that has the majority number of assets which tends to manipulate price as they wish to. Most of them are early adopters and have been controlling the pumps and dumps on crypto tradings.

Whales are the people that own a large amount of coin. They are incredibly dangerous in GROUPS. Seriously, a pod of whales can easily manipulate the market. Nobody likes whales.

The term whale is regularly used to depict an individual or group with tremendous money related assets and capital that can impact the costs of these coins in regard to this market.It is additionally hypothesized that there are gathering of whales that manipultes the bitcoin costs and can make pump and dump circumstance in market.They impact the direcrion of costs in market.But in little trade a man with less capital can be named as whale while in vast exhange gigantic capital assets are required to be arranged under this segment.

We know whale is biggest and powerful animal in world of sea,In crypto this word used for a group which is powerful and fluctuate market own consent.The whale group inject and and take money which effect the market.No one can exactly predict the next move of whale but we can reach the facts and figures to keep eye on past history and news updates about the crypto.

I need a hundred thousand dollars to feel like an elite society in my home country. But it's a poor country.

whale is a mammal that leaves in large ocean within luxury and money. they are spending their money to create big waves over crypto ocean

As far as i understand the meaning of whale in trading and why they called whales  by some small time trader is becaue. The whale they are the group of people who join forces or combine there money to invest in one coins and hold it or control the price to pump and dump. The seconed whale is some indevidual people who have a very big amount of money on there own and invest in some coins that they think they can earn money.

When we talk about its real meaning, Whale is a mammal that lives in water. But in terms of cryptocurrency, whale is the person who holds a lot of coins. They are one of the reason why market is sometimes dump or pump. Because whales are huge investors, they can manipulate the market whereas small investors are trapped and panic sellers lose a lot of money.

They are grouped to pump a coin I often see them working with the team from dev coin to raise prices,accept some of the coin to them from dev team and that is a group of pumper walk in my opinion. Individual whale are often trapped by pumper groups,meaning in whale and the real meaning is money.  ;D

I guess that you are a new in this market. As far as I know that whales are people or also a group of people working together to gather large percentage  of that coin and can drag the coin price to the desired price. When the coin price gets decreased, most of users sell it with low, Whale will make use of this chance to buy many coins in low. In a nutshell, probably many people get scared of  Whale. If you are in this market for a long term, gradually you will understand more about Whale.

The word whale reffered as in crypto world is Actually its a group of investors having massive investment in the market and they inject take investment from the market which results high fluctuations in the market.No one know the next step of whale but ewe should follow the market trend will save our funds and possible to take right decisions.

The whales are persons that have in their wallets more than 1000 bitcoin or near of that. It a market participant don't have enough, then it's just a dolphin

This infographic will be more useful. I've just  saw this infographic  for Cryptocurrency Trading Terms. If you are actively trading bitcoin and other digital assets, you should know the most commonly used bitcoin slang terms.

Whale is a big Crypto gaint they are all ruling the Crypto market because they are all holding the more than 1k Bitcoin and altcoins. In normally whales is the king of Ocean but Crypto platform whales is the consumer in Crypto currency so anytime consumers are jump to the another platform automatically market is fluctuating I think this name suitable in consumer.

As far as I know Whales are Rich because they own A lot of coins it's like they own the almost 1/4 to 1/2 of the total allocation for all investors and ICO participants. They owned big money in their accounts. It's like 10 BTC is really small amounts for them.

"The term 'whale' refers to an investor with deep pockets who can move the market by buying or selling in large volumes. Given the relatively modest market caps of crypto assets compared to other sectors, the movements of crypto whales can provide important price signals to alert investors. The term 'Whale' comes from the traditional financial markets and was recently used in mainstream media to describe former J.P. Morgan trader, Bruno Iksil, a.k.a the “London Whale”, who generated a loss of $6.2 billion trading credit derivatives for the bank’s Chief Investment Office (CIO). " - Source: https://bravenewcoin.com/news/how-whales-influence-the-price-of-bitcoin/

You can find the full definition and deeply understand who the whales are, how the whales trade btc, what and why the whales influence the crypto market and so on following the link here: https://bravenewcoin.com/news/how-whales-influence-the-price-of-bitcoin/

I find this article useful and we are just the Nemo fishes. It's better to identify and follow the Whales

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They are the rich one, who are willing to invest higher because they know the potential income that they can get from investing big in it. They are called whales because they are creating big impact about the value of bitcoin, if they buy value gets higher and if they sell the value became low too.

whale is also trader like us but they will be investing a large amount of funds in trading so which indirectly controlls the cryptomarket. So they play a major role in the pump and dump of the market.

Whale is the truth and its presence in the market is accelerating the fluctuation / dumping. We can not replace that. And it's part of creating a specialty of the crypto market.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/the-bitcoin-whales-1-000-people-who-own-40-percent-of-the-market (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/the-bitcoin-whales-1-000-people-who-own-40-percent-of-the-market)

In spite of the fact that earlier it was said that it was impossible in any case, we still observe constant intervention and manipulation of prices on stock exchanges. That's it these guys - whales do everything possible to increase their incomes, despite our outrage with you.

Whales are also traders that has a huge amount of money, it is huge that in fact it can change the current price of a certain coin. It can either make the market down or up any time they want. Whales are huge investors, and there are a lot of whales, we cannot tell how many whales are out there trading, manipulating or playing around the market.

Big investors that can handle everything and they can manage for what may happen i mean they hold more and they can control everything.

You can say as a trading player who has a lot of capital. that is in my knowledge, may be different from the assumptions of others. I think the whales are just a name for many bitcoin owners and control some of the price in bitcoin

   Trader is any person with some capital. Whales are not necessary Bitcoin owners, whales are people with huge capital, so huge to hold a very
big part of the market. With so huge capital they affect supply/demand. There are a lot of whales with different agendas, they are enemies to
each other.
   They do not control money in the market. With one part of the market and with good news spinning they can create huge demand and interest,
or to create panic. Either way with their capital, I believe they need to have Bitcoin`s and fiat, they create top`s and bottom`s, and in trading
who knows where is the top and where is the bottom is the one who is making a lot of profit, in Bitcoin`s and fiat.
   

Yes, a whale is always recognize as a big and large creature on the sea and that is why in crypto market a whale term is used to described people who have own and hold a very large amount of bitcoin or any other coin in the market that their decisions can really affect market changes and movement because they have the capacity to directly change the figure of market supply and demands.

Whale is somebody who can make waves in the market, either he or she could make huge pumps and dumps. The money doesn't matter to become a whale, its the amount of coins you have - i mean the percent of coins you have for the entire market cap.