At least several of the whales here traded lots of fiat for their stake. Not sure about a few of The Old Ones though, @freedom and maybe a few others may have ninja-mined in the first few days of the old chain.
Some of the mega whales, true enough.
I meant more in a general sense of larger accounts than the ones over 500k.
To new users we almost all look like whales. If your account is the equivalent of a few years of their salary then you look like a whale.
Freedom was here for the mine day 1 and a lot of the big names earn from witnessing but then dan and khal would have bought.
When i joined i though that anybody with 5k HP was a giant. That was my target for the first few years but then it just kept growing.
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