It depends what you call a whale. As I started as a total ignorant noob, I lost many times most of what I had.
I had to go through the hard process of learning while some others were already very knowledgeable in IT, economy, finance, fintech and trading.
I hope to become a true whale in the years to come now that I've got the knowledge.

@kola-schaar : Interesting post mate.

EDIT : I just did an infographic about the interest of Byteball over time



Where is your country guys ?