What is Bitcoin whale watching and how to track Bitcoin whales?
There are four primary ways to track whale activities, which include monitoring known whale addresses, order books, sudden changes in market capitalization and trades on crypto exchanges. Whales are held responsible for sudden price fluctuations in the crypto and traditional markets every so often. Given their capability to manipulate market prices, it becomes paramount for the general Bitcoin (BTC) investors to understand the nuances that make one a whale and their overall impact on trading.Wallet addresses that contain large amounts of BTC are identified as Bitcoin whales. Dumping or....
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Crypto whale action can affect the price of cryptocurrencies and tracking these whales can offer invaluable and timely insights into price movements. What are the common crypto whale tracking tools?Whale tracking tools like Whale Watchers, Whale Bot Alerts and others can help investors spot whale action and make quick and timely decisions.Whale tracking tools come with different capabilities, some can be just a simple window on top of a blockchain, while others have analytics and charting capabilities across multiple blockchains. Some only cover crypto whale tracking, while others offer....
The transparency blockchain provides lets fundamental analysts see when whales are loading up on Bitcoin, but it can’t tell when technicals take a turn. However, whale behavior might still be the key to understanding price action. Right now, whales on the long-standing crypto exchange Bitfinex have amassed one of the largest collective long positions ever. […]
While there’s a number of bitcoin whales that often get caught by blockchain parsers and written about in media reports, ethereum whales get a lot less attention. According to statistics in 2022, there are a lot more ethereum whales than holders with large sums of bitcoin. In fact, while the top 100 richest bitcoin addresses control 14.08% of the circulating supply, the top 100 richest ethereum addresses hold 39.81% of all the ether today. Data Shows Ethereum Still Has a Large Concentration of Whales in 2022 Ethereum, the second-largest crypto asset in terms of market....
Amid the turbulent crypto bear market, Chainlink whales are continuing to show their hand by refusing to back down. This has led to a rapid rise in not only the holdings of these Chainlink whales but the number of whale addresses associated with the altcoin as well. Chainlink Whale Addresses Rise By 6% In a […]
The "Whales Supply Shock" metric has been pretty accurate in detecting Bitcoin market tops. Bitcoin's (BTC) biggest investors have been lately upping their reserves in sync with the ongoing price recovery, one Glassnode metric suggests.Dubbed as "Whale Supply Shock," the on-chain indicator represents the ratio between the amount of Bitcoin held by "whales" and "fishes." Whales represent addresses that hold between 10,000 BTC and 100,000 BTC, while fishes are those that hold anything between 0.001 BTC and 1,000 BTC.A rising Whale Supply Shock reading indicates a higher degree of....