Wallets where established well before any drop was on the cards. snapshot was in feb 21, drop was announced in aug 21, chain launched in oct 21. Most of these wallets were funded in 2020, way before any drops even hinted at. Seems not deliberately gamed, just lucky.
Having said that, does the character of the whale change things? It is alleged they gained their ATOM's via running Ponzi's and scaming peoples seed's on discord or telegram. I have seen these allegations, but no firm evidence. But it seems likely.
Definitely more research into the wallets, and some on chain analysis should have gone into the whale wallets prior to the drop.
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Just because they were way ahead of the announcement still doesn't prove they didn't know. Common sense makes me think otherwise. Why 50k, why not 25k or even less. Then there is the fact that they combined the JUNO to one account to collect all the airdrops in one shot. How convenient is it not? Sorry to keep pressing on the items with no additional updates on my part. I just feel its too many things aligning together making it very suspicious.