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by tatsuke95 5014 days ago
>"Whales is a term thats been there from the Casino days of Las Vegas. You may know its other variant - High roller."

"Whales" is also used in the financial world for a person with lots of money and no knowledge of what to do with it. In other words, a mark for the clever financial "advisor".

Though, I suppose that in reality there's not much difference between the two definitions.