Who are these so-called "whales' in the Cryptocurrency world?

[taiwww]

It can be banks, funds, billionaires, just people who saved thousands of their bitcoins bought several years ago.

This knowledge is absolutely useless, everyone knows that Karpeles stole thousands of coins from his stock exchange, but what has changed?
We know the names of people in Forbes, but we can not influence their decisions and actions.
Do not clog your head with this nonsense....

I am sure bank and fundsters are not the whales. I mean what made you think that they can invest into the bitcoin too as they are highly regulated piece of junk who are trying to restrict the bitcoin market in all the possible ways. Let's just keep it limited to those guys who are individually or in the company form hodling most of the bitcoin in their wallets. Just to clarify Mt. gox is something called as whales.

[el kaka22]

They say they can manipulate the price of a certain cryptocurrency coin. So how do they do that and who/what are the most famous and richest whales in the cryptoccurency world?

They are the big guys in every market and the ones with the large position who control things. I am no sure who is the famous and the richest whale, but one thing I know is that they use some form of emotional analysis to move the market after having a huge position for the greater profit they are targeting and knowing how traders and investors will be reacting to those movement, they have all to move it however, they please. We cannot do without having them around, so it is just best to get used to.

I am sure bank and fundsters are not the whales. I mean what made you think that they can invest into the bitcoin too as they are highly regulated piece of junk who are trying to restrict the bitcoin market in all the possible ways.

No, anyone who are having enormous amount of bitcoin and trying to manipulate the bitcoin prices then we may call them whales. There could be no exception here for bankers nor fund-risers. I read some exchanges also uses its customer money for their trading purposes then why not call them whales.

[sakokinak]

They say they can manipulate the price of a certain cryptocurrency coin. So how do they do that and who/what are the most famous and richest whales in the cryptoccurency world?

These are the people, who have a huge amount of the cryptocurrency. They say whales have 99% of Bitcoins. Thus, they can easily control the market any time.

[stomachgrowls]

It can be banks, funds, billionaires, just people who saved thousands of their bitcoins bought several years ago.

This knowledge is absolutely useless, everyone knows that Karpeles stole thousands of coins from his stock exchange, but what has changed?
We know the names of people in Forbes, but we can not influence their decisions and actions.
Do not clog your head with this nonsense....

I dont even know on whats the point for you to strive on knowing who are the whales of this market. We do know generally that whales can be considered to be an individual,corporation,banksters and others which do have the money that can really give affect on the price of the market.Even if we do know their personality or identity there would be no changes just like on the thing been said above which i completely agree.This is really nonsense.

[Naman1111]

Whales are the big guys >>people and group who owns huge amount of bitcoin which can manipulate the market price. Mostly whales are the people who very early to this market has generated lot of wealth during the ICO boom as well. These whale include> Roger Ver, Eric Vooheres >>Mt GOX.  They drive the market  as they hold huge positions. They make money from the blood of the newbies who get effected by the volatility in the market. This volatility is obviously caused by them.

[jahn_quid]

Whales are the big guys >>people and group who owns huge amount of bitcoin which can manipulate the market price. Mostly whales are the people who very early to this market has generated lot of wealth during the ICO boom as well. These whale include> Roger Ver, Eric Vooheres >>Mt GOX.  They drive the market  as they hold huge positions. They make money from the blood of the newbies who get effected by the volatility in the market. This volatility is obviously caused by them.

That's crazy that Mt. Gox is a whale - that they ended up handling so much BTC that even now closed they're still considered a whale.

[xvids]

The whales in the crypto currency world are the people who have a huge amount of token ,
They are the ones who are considered as big investors or players .

[jonatuzc]

They say they can manipulate the price of a certain cryptocurrency coin. So how do they do that and who/what are the most famous and richest whales in the cryptoccurency world?

These are the people, who have a huge amount of the cryptocurrency. They say whales have 99% of Bitcoins. Thus, they can easily control the market any time.

I do not know the exact percentage of bitcoiners that are whales or whales that are bitcoiners. But it is very clear that bitcoin has a huge number of big investors who turn the whole market from green to red and the other way whenever they feel like bringing change. The recent dip and the present boost are also due to these guys. But I like them as they help crypto currencies in surviving.

[Leonard2016]

They say they can manipulate the price of a certain cryptocurrency coin. So how do they do that and who/what are the most famous and richest whales in the cryptoccurency world?

Different types of traders :


Killer Whale = 5000 BTC or more

 

Whale = 1001 – 4999 BTC

 

Shark = 501 – 1000 BTC

 

Dolphin = 101 – 500 BTC

 

Baby Dolphin = 51 – 100 BTC

 

Shrimp = 11 – 50 BTC

 

Sea Cucumber = 1 – 10 BTC

 

Plankton = less than 1 BTC  

This is a nice graphics to really put this thing in perspective. I read a similar stuff where the less than <1btc were referred to as Shrimps - Lol. It's all good. What matters is the vivid pictures both paint in one's mind's eye.

But you should edit each start to +1 where Shrimps becomes 11 - 50BTC, Baby Dolphin = 51 – 100 BTC, etc.

Edited , Thanks in advance!

[vintages]

You should do yourself a favor by not bothering who the so called whale investors are because the truth is that, they won't reveal themselves. They do remain hidden because their manipulations usually affect the price of the manipulated coins and the savings of the investors. Because of this manipulation,  many have lost a lot. Though,  some people still believe that they really don't  exist...

[Zadicar]

You should do yourself a favor by not bothering who the so called whale investors are because the truth is that, they won't reveal themselves. They do remain hidden because their manipulations usually affect the price of the manipulated coins and the savings of the investors. Because of this manipulation,  many have lost a lot. Though,  some people still believe that they really don't  exist...

For those people who people that those whales doesnt exist are the ones who lost a lot on this trading world with crypto. They do really exist yet there would be always someone who do have the advantage or capabilities compared to others.Whales wont really disclosed themselves either for security matters or not just really like to be known in public.Its just normal that if theres someone who earns money or profits then there would be always a losser.

[hhussain]

Having a big amount in exchange accounts are called whales. These are the one who can manipulate the market can increase and decrease the price of any coin and get the great profit. They earn the max profits from this manipulation.

[riaruhs09]

it can be said that the whale is a person who has a lot of money or a certain altcoin so that even he can control the market price, but the average current whale is a group of people either a company or a bank.

[Yaunfitda]

It can be banks, funds, billionaires, just people who saved thousands of their bitcoins bought several years ago.

This knowledge is absolutely useless, everyone knows that Karpeles stole thousands of coins from his stock exchange, but what has changed?
We know the names of people in Forbes, but we can not influence their decisions and actions.
Do not clog your head with this nonsense....

I am sure bank and fundsters are not the whales. I mean what made you think that they can invest into the bitcoin too as they are highly regulated piece of junk who are trying to restrict the bitcoin market in all the possible ways. Let's just keep it limited to those guys who are individually or in the company form hodling most of the bitcoin in their wallets. Just to clarify Mt. gox is something called as whales.

As far as I can remember Jamie Dimon CEO of JPMorgan Chase has a lot of bitcoin investments. To refresh your memory, he rode on the Chinese fake news last year, making the price "crashed", however they secretly buying tons of bitcoin in dip.

Most of us says that we uncover one of the biggest whales so far who is JPMorgan Chase so I wouldn't be surprised if they will continue to do so and manipulate it even further during this bearish trend.

[Torrenth]

This is a billionaire who buys a lot of btc at a low price then saves it, I think they are a greedy person

[zpopdream]

'Whales' usually refers to people who own much crypto (for instance, purchased bitcoins when they were much much cheaper) and now invest big sums in different projects that conduct ico.

[trumper]

Today's whales are not so powerful compared to past, when bitcoin was very cheap and not important asset compared to today, those who have lots of bitcoin can play with the market at his will.

[mrclark]

I hate whale because they can easily make a specific crypt value high. That's the big fish. If we try to determine the price of Bitcoin, then we will say the first whim. Those things with the big positions and the wealthy whales control. Then we could call them whales. They say 99% of the whales are Bitcoin

[arthotdog]

They say they can manipulate the price of a certain cryptocurrency coin. So how do they do that and who/what are the most famous and richest whales in the cryptoccurency world?

Do you wanna know who are they?i will let you know they are the "whales" lol
As if they will let you know who are they,and about how they do it?they manipulating the market by buying bitcoin constantly until the price grow,upon happening other investor will buy bitcoin too,then if the whales saw that many are riding the pump,all of a sudden they will withdraw then they earn but the other investors loss

[AshikurRahmanKhan16]

No one knows about them, who they are? I think they are an anonymous team, who have the huge money or they bought many bitcoins when bitcoin was nothing in this world. But when bitcoin price increased incredibly then they became a billionaire. They can manipulate coins price. I heard some whales are always active in binance. They just pump a coin for a short time, when many people start buying then they sell to them and then they again down the coin. They are not helpful for the crypto market.