Im not for or against a pump group but lets be realistic. There is no such thing as honest money. Everytime money gets earned there is somebody who gets fucked...and that can be on various ways.
All major companies fraud with taxes, sell good for 500 times its actual value, children working in factories all over the world and making the clothes you wear and so on... nothing is fair, thats how the world works..
Also regulation wont stop anything. Look at regular stockmarkets...it happens there the same only on a far bigger scale.
You don't understand regulation of the traditional markets.. Regulation lets the giants manipulate and the little guy go to jail. TPTB, with their high-frequency trading algorithms that are on computers right at the exchanges, have a hard-wired pipe to the market and can do trades in milliseconds. That is enough time to front run the markets. They can dictate the price on anything at will. They make their money whether price is up or down. Then the political establishment writes laws that allow them to do insider trading, which if you or I did it, we would go to jail. That is how crony-capitalism works in the USA.
These guys here are just low-level thugs and if the big players move into crypto these guys will be rounded up and sent to crowbar hotel. This thread is shilled to death. Look at all of the accounts pimping this service. They rarely, if ever, post in any other thread.
To them I say:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fTAXVr8N40There are many forms of manipulation but also the ones you mention dont always work (binck bank for example just get caught doing that), but indeed i get your point.