I just spend the last 15 minutes browsing through the top 100 wallets on the Strais Block explorer, thinking maybe I was wrong in my assesment. However, the #100 wallet is roughly 189k coins, so we can assume that the 200k wallets are the top 100.
If you look at them, there are lots and lots that are staking, which is great for the network. However, as my previous statement stands, there are very few wallets that are consistently adding more stratis to their wallet besides the staking rewards. I would put the number at less than 5 wallets that were consistently adding stratis to their wallet every so often.
The volume we see on the exchanges is just stratis being traded back and forth. Sorry to break it to you sir ( or mam) but, in the last 24 hours on Poloneix there has been 1.3 million stratis exchanged.
Those 1.3 million stratis have not gone to the top 100 rich list wallets from what can be seen on the block explorer.
Could be the whales keep them in exchanges, and there are indeed 4 or 5 people with GIANT wallets on exchanges.
Or there could be alot of people trading modest amounts of stratis.
10 apples traded between 5 people or 100 people is still 10 apples at the end of the day.
Give it up already man. Your original post you talked about bots with no owners manipulating the market and whales don't exist and I called you out on it. That's it. Also, quit bringing up my bitcointalk rank, it has nothing to do with my replies or anyone elses. Ranks just mean I've been here longer and I'll get paid more than you on signature campaigns. lol Peace!