Chapter 76
Chapter 76
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 76
Chapter Title: Whale Hunting
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Five monitors lined up in the operations room, and I was analyzing all sorts of charts and data.
"Activating Post-Nut Clarity."
Thanks to finishing "business" with Yura ten minutes ago, something in my brain felt clear and unclogged.
Yura was tapping away at her calculator beside me, mapping out fund management plans, while Chaewon brewed coffee and checked on my condition.
Choi Yang was monitoring various community sites.
Time to analyze the first target.
Sitting in front of the monitor, I felt like a deep-sea diver exploring the ocean floor.
Like wandering through the darkness, searching for massive shadows.
I checked the top volume wallets on Upbit and Bithumb one by one.
Each wallet was a mystery, and my mission was to uncover the identities of the massive capital hiding behind them.
Wallet number one. It traded around 3 billion won on average per day.
The moment I spotted my first prey, I focused like a predator peering through binoculars at its meal.
I combed through its transaction history for the past three months.
A pattern started to emerge.
It repeated a simple routine: buy at 9 a.m. every day, sell at 3 p.m.
"What a boring bastard..."
Too predictable.
A pattern as precise as a clock. This one wouldn't even make good bait. Predictable moves were no fun.
On to wallet number two.
50 billion won scale, but mostly trading in stablecoins.
Analyzing the transactions revealed an extreme aversion to volatility. Seemed like a conservative institutional investor.
"No fun here either."
Felt like hunting timid rabbits. The kind that bolt at the slightest movement.
Wallets three through seven... all similar small-time whales.
Each analysis brought more disappointment.
All stuck to predictable patterns.
Like fish farmed in a pen, completely tamed.
"None of these are even worth the bait."
I sighed and muttered to myself.
Wallet eight, nine... more of the same small-scale investors.
These were too puny for our 13.8 billion seed to bother with.
"Not even worth a day's pay."
Yura asked from beside me.
"Yeah. Catching these would net us a few billion at best."
I ran the numbers, and yeah, that was about right.
Against a 3 billion wallet, profits would be 300-500 million. Pathetic for rolling 13.8 billion.
"Hourly wage-wise, it's below minimum."
Choi Yang snickered from behind.
"Exactly. Better to rest than waste Post-Nut Clarity on these minnows."
Even Chaewon shook her head.
"To roll 13.8 billion, we need opponents with at least hundreds of billions, right?"
Spot on. We needed targets that matched our scale.
"Better to ignore these altogether."
I gave up and moved to the next.
"Let's find the real big ones. At least tens of billions a day in profit."
Like a fisherman ignoring small fry to hunt tuna, I set out for bigger game.
Time passed.
One hour, two... numbers danced across the monitors, but nothing I wanted showed up.
Coffee had gone cold, my neck stiff.
Yura sighed beside me as she crunched fund numbers, and Chaewon quietly brought fresh coffee.
Like a fisherman adrift at sea waiting for the big one, I persisted stubbornly.
The real prey hadn't appeared yet.
Travel Rule made overseas exchanges tough, and domestically, only these small fish were biting.
Changed direction.
Set alerts for volume spikes and started tracking real-time fund movements.
That's when it happened.
Sudden anomalies in three cryptocurrencies at once.
'Thundercoin', 'Mistcoin', 'Flashcoin'...
All junk coins outside the top 100 by market cap.
But volume surging to 500% of normal.
Prices barely budging.
Something was off.
Dug into the on-chain data.
Reverse-tracing big trades...
All linked to one massive network.
Dozens of different wallet addresses woven into a spiderweb structure.
And at the center...
"Fuck, this is the real deal."
I shot up from my chair. Goosebumps at the numbers on screen.
This wasn't a whale.
It was a kraken.
Started estimating assets.
First, the trackable wallets.
Just the three main ones held 240 billion won.
But that was the tip of the iceberg.
Reverse-engineered the trading patterns.
Analyzed total volume over the past three months to estimate holdings.
"Daily average volume 80 billion... Whales usually trade 5-10% of holdings actively..."
Tapped the calculator.
"Minimum 800 billion to max 1.6 trillion..."
But that wasn't the end.
Scariest part: hardware wallets. Cold storage impossible to track.
A kraken this level would keep most assets there.
Active trades just a tiny fraction.
"If active assets are 20% of total..."
Breath caught.
"Total assets minimum 4 trillion to max 8 trillion..."
Not an individual. Some massive institution or group.
"Yura."
I called her shaky voice, the fastest with money calcs.
"Help with numbers. Can our 13.8 billion go toe-to-toe?"
Yura grabbed her calculator, checked my figures.
"You're insane? This isn't a fight, it's suicide."
Chaewon peeked over, face paling.
"Th... these things really exist?"
Even Choi Yang stopped community monitoring to stare.
"Eek, this is a real monster."
13.8 billion vs. kraken with trillions... any chance?
I calculated coldly.
"Absolute capital? No win."
Ran a simple sim with clear Post-Nut Clarity head.
"Assume 4 trillion opponent, we're 0.3%. Straight fight, we're ants."
But Post-Nut Clarity offered another angle.
"Kraken doesn't dump all 4 trillion at once."
Re-analyzed patterns.
"See? They deploy 20-30 billion per go. Under 1% of total."
Yura nodded.
"Yeah. No matter how rich, they won't all-in one coin."
"Then..."
Kept calculating.
"Our full 13.8 billion focused? Individual battles 50-50."
Choi Yang puzzled.
"Still, they have more?"
"True. But we have another weapon."
Pointed at monitor.
"Post-Nut Clarity. Perfect timing. Enter or exit 0.1 seconds before their 30 billion dump."
Chaewon worried.
"Still risky, right?"
"Of course."
I admitted honestly.
"But think: Hook this kraken once, we bag 100 billion."
Yura tapped calculator.
"Risk-reward decent. Issue: Fail, and 13.8 billion gone."
I sank into thought.
Odds 40-60. Unfavorable, but possible.
"Observe more first. No rush."
Bear market. Stagnant.
Like sea after storm, whole market hushed and still.
Volume crawling, investor interest faded.
Surviving this dead market was miracle enough.
But shadows moved within.
Studied how mystery kraken grew assets in this market.
Like archaeologist reconstructing ancient civilization, traced kraken's footsteps one by one.
Days of observation.
Pulling all-nighters analyzing data, finding patterns, drawing correlations.
Result: Kraken's method surprisingly simple.
Buy dips and hold, sell rises gradually.
"This bastard's so basic."
I marveled at the monitor.
Screen showed kraken's trades in wave-like regular patterns.
Every dip, quietly but surely added positions.
Like whale swallowing plankton, devouring market fear and despair.
On rises, no greed.
Decent profit? Gradually liquidated portions for cash.
Repeating this, kraken steadily grew assets even in slump.
"Making money like this in this market..."
Awe mixed with strange envy.
Perfected by time and capital luxury.
But hunch: Flaw in this perfection.
"Steadily pulling 10-15% monthly even in slump."
Annualized, huge. Ultra-stable.
"Problem: How to fleece them."
Hunted kraken's weaknesses.
One: Too regular. 5%+ dip? Always buys.
Two: Sell timing predictable. 8-12% above average buy? Always trims.
Three: No emotion. Probably system trading or rigid rules.
Capital-backed method.
Their 1% dwarfed ours.
Held absolute edge: time.
Could wait out losses. That fund power biggest weapon.
Time, time...
Sudden epiphany.
"That's it."
Slapped knee.
Like finding puzzle's last piece.
"Kraken's strength is its weakness."
Pointed at monitor, explained.
Screen: Kraken trades like steady heartbeat.
"See? They have time, so patient. 5% drop buy, 10% rise sell..."
Yura tilted head.
"Why's that a weakness?"
"Think: Weaponizing time means dependent on it too."
Like captain reading whale from vast sea, re-analyzed patterns.
Watched data flow like waves, gauging opponent's breath.
"Never rush surges or crashes. Always constant speed."
Choi Yang nodded understanding.
"Ah, so if we force sharp changes?"
"Exactly! Kraken not optimized for day-or-two scalps."
Excited, kept dissecting like hunter knowing prey's habits perfectly.
"System tuned for long-term stability. Sudden variables? Vulnerable."
Chaewon worried.
"Capital gap too big though?"
"True. But we have Post-Nut Clarity."
Confident.
Like fisherman with perfect bait and trap.
"Nail timing, small pebble triggers avalanche."
No concrete plan yet, but direction set.
Sank into chair, deep in thought.
Mind shaping massive operation.
Exploit kraken's slow response.
That was key.
Like prepping perfect lure and trap for giant whale.
Risky, but thrilling.
Sea calm, but beneath surface, massive battle brewing.