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 got into crypto towards mid to end of 2016 by way of investing into Ponzi schemes and then, later on, In may 2017 I got to know about the trading process how we can trade our coins with BTC and vice versa. The manipulation was still there I think but then it was taking the bitcoin upwards and it was not manipulated in a certain price range like it is now(i blame futures market for this). Ico,s were a big thing back then no one wanted to miss out on the crazy gains which ICO's were providing unlike now.