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"Like most hedge fund managers specializing in cryptocurrencies, Samani constantly tracks trading activity of addresses known to belong to the biggest investors in the coins he holds. (Although bitcoin transactions are designed to be anonymous, each one is associated with a coded address that can be seen by anyone.) When he sees activity, Samani immediately calls the likely sellers and can often get information on motivations behind their sales and their trading plans, he says."

Is there any resource to find the list of the biggest investors in the coins? Or any addresses that are known as "Whales?"

Yes it's possible, I've got one link below to a recent article that applies as well.  I'm not sure how much I believe that guy, that he knows all the biggest traders..but I am going to look in to him.


https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html

https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/02/19/unknown-investor-buys-billion-dollars-worth-bitcoin

I would imagine you could find more information somewhere on this awesome website- http://thebitcoinpage.com/

Despite what was written in that article and what the previous poster wrote, it is very difficult to associate an address with a person. It is possible to determine addresses that are used by exchanges, but generally not by individuals unless they publicly associate themselves with an address.

I am a fan of the big investors and i like to watch their account going down and up using ethplorer, i am using this to see their hold tokens and the value of each tokens for example this one https://ethplorer.io/address/0x56ae76573ec54754bc5b6a8cbf04bbd7dc86b0a0 you will see that he holds a billion dollar value of coins.

that's the thing about bitcoin, if someone chooses to remain anonymous they can. look at satoshi for example.
and all these "lists" called rich lists,... always contain popular addresses. for example if you loo at the list most of the addresses belong to services such as exchanges.

a whale wouldn't let others know his addresses so that they can do any kind of speculation based on it. and even if you by any chance found an address like what OP said here:
"...When he sees activity, Samani immediately calls the likely sellers and..."
you can never call it a "sell". it is an "activity" and you can't speculate based on that. for all you know the owner of that address just mixed his coins!

On etherscan site you can find section "Token - View Tokens", then choose any popular ERC20 token (Bancor for example - #20), choose "Token holders" and you can see addresses which have the biggest amount of chosen token. This is one of way for detecting whales. ;)

Thank you for your insights! :)

it is the same situation with all the altcoins that don't have fully anonymous transaction, which is practically 99% of them. you can always see their rich lists somewhere. for example https://chainz.cryptoid.info/ has lists of most of the altcoins and their richest addresses.

and it is always the same, some exchange or some developer who owns the coin and its premine or ICO or something like that. it is rarely and nearly never an individual who actually bought and holds all of the coins in one place and becomes a whale. whales usually don't stay in one altcoin!