Was the market easy to manipulate?
pump and dumps were more common?
not quite sure but people were more cautious and not as many people into crypto yet
pumps and dumps were just about the same frequency and amplitude,
the difference is the increasing number of people involved and the total sum of money transacted
Were people more into ICO's? the ICO image was better than it is today?
back then you need to have your own blockchain for each coin, unlike easily created tokens
with altcoins the common scam was hidden/misused premined coin for developer's own profit
I think ICO started just a couple years back
(2015/2016??) when ETH introduced digital asset or smart contract
since then we get flooded by numerous ICO token projects and peaked sometime in 2017