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How to protect your cryptocurrency from whale ‘rinse and repeat’ trades
Lessons we can learn from the legend of Napoleon Bonapart’s defeat at Waterloo and Nathan Mayer Rothschild’s reaction
5 min readJul 3, 2019
As a general rule of thumb, the top 500 holders of a cryptocurrency are considered ‘Whales’.
- The history of ‘rinse and repeat’
- How to protect your cryptocurrency from rinse and repeat trades in today’s cryptocurrency markets
Why do cryptocurrency investors fear Whales?
I love history and I love great stories. If you want to better understand a problem, history can be a great guide. If we want to better understand the problems created by the power of Whales moving their assets into and out of cryptocurrency markets, I think it’s a good idea to go back to a well-known example from history that can help to illustrate the problem.