Yes it does it is called a pump and dump
So if a billionaire pump and dumped Bitcoin, would Bitcoin then be a scam? Give us a break.

BTC2 just was an easier target at that time for an opportunist to do that. Not so easy target anymore.
No, my issue is they did not plan the launch of this bitcoin 2 correctly. They should have just FORKED correctly with payout in BTC 2 via those holding Bitcoin
when BTC 2 was started and worth 1c or 2c...
They would, IMHO, have made up at the back end in actual coin price now 4x the amount at least, again, IMHO, doing so, rather than the situation they are now at
...in not being true forked of Bitcoin actually.
The piddly amount of forking the coin at the start would have made this coin a lot less dubious then it is now. Indeed I'd bet it would be $10 coin
by such actions. Thus, one can only conclude that either 1) the devs of BTC 2 were just cheap and greedy or 2) they have no idea how forking a
the coin of Bitcoin at launch makes a big difference for little or no cost at launching...ie they are clueless.
So either does not make my heart go pitter-pat for this Bitcoin 2 coin as a result of NOT forking the damn thing..it was a no brainer to do so at launch
Brad