I spoke with few friends recently about the hype that the crypto market received at the end of 2017.
I wonder how was it before 2017.
Joined crypto last quarter of 2016 price of bitcoin was around $700 that time. Not much hype though, some news that will push the price and then some healthy corrections. It also hit all-time-high above $800 in 2016.
Was the market easy to manipulate?
pump and dumps were more common?
Were people more into ICO's? the ICO image was better than it is today?
There are manipulations already but just minor thingy here and there. Pump-and-dumps are bearable, unlike today that its very obvious. Not much ICO's that time though, as far as I can remember only quite a few in 2016.
https://www.icodata.io/stats/2016