Small whales are becoming increasingly popular in the cryptocurrency industry, particularly with Bitcoin.

Small whales are becoming increasingly popular in the cryptocurrency industry, particularly with Bitcoin. Individuals, institutions, and exchanges that own large quantities of a cryptocurrency's tokens are referred to as whales. A whale account, for example, is one that has 1,000 Bitcoins or more in Bitcoin (BTC). Pantera Capital and Fortress Investment Group are two instances of well-known whales. Satoshi Nakamoto, who is alleged to have mined over a million Bitcoins, is another well-known—yet widely speculated—whale. Bitcoin whales are similar to other prominent asset holders in that their actions have disproportionately large effects on the bitcoin market, either through higher volatility, lower liquidity, or a combination of the two. Whales frequently place enormous sell orders on the books that are lower than other sell positions in the market, causing price instability and a chain reaction. When whales take their massive sell orders off the market or cause enough panic sell...