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.
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?
I've been involved with crypto since 2013 and on this forum since early 2014 and there's always been waves of hype and excitement, but nothing like what was seen late last year as it was just crazy with the amount of newbies that were jumping on board the hype train due to FOMO (which is what I think powered it mostly). I'm sure we'll see many more of these cycles over the next decade or so but I do hope one day bitcoin levels off and calms down and can be used more as a legitimate and stable currency. With so much money to be made and greedy whales and investors I'm sure it will be a fair while before we see that calm however.