🐳 A quick guide to it: what is a “whale”?

💰 Usually, if a single transaction reaches $200,000–$1 million, it counts as a whale move.

⚠️ But note: To judge whether a whale has moved oddly, besides factoring in the opening position value, you also have to look at the whale’s own size. A true whale might have several million or even up to hundreds of millions of dollars sitting in their hands; if they move $200,000, that’s just testing the waters. But if a small fish scrapes together $200,000, it may already be all of their net worth. So just looking at the amount of a single transaction isn’t enough—you need to combine it with the address’s total holdings for a comprehensive assessment.

Don’t get fooled—there’s no fixed “whale” standard; it depends on how big the pool is:

· In small coins: If you’re carrying a few hundred thousand dollars (for example, $500,000), then you’re a whale that can dominate the scene.
· In Bitcoin: If you don’t have more than $100 million (≈1000 BTC), then you’re not really considered a whale. The threshold recognized by old hands in the circle is 1000 BTC.
· Watching daily on-chain transfers: A single transaction moving $200,000 counts as whale-level activity; if you want a higher bar, it starts at $1 million per transaction.

In one sentence: the bigger the pond, the higher the whale threshold. Don’t use a few hundred thousand dollars in small coins to “call out” the big whales in Bitcoin.

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