Was a brilliant case study, just watching how things worked. How crazy it made people. You could literally get rich over night if you had the head, the balls and most importantly the contacts. Certain people who'd gotten crazy rich became big personalities with followings. They'd drop little hints to their fans, run private trading groups or give seminars, all that. And they'd sucker their followers into pumping whatever coin they'd been slowly buying tiny amounts of over the last 3 months for nothing. Then pump it and let the followers know after the real pump is already on the way and at least 2x what they'd been buying at so it was always a free ride. The fans then boosting the volume like crazy which attracted everyone else. Sometimes they'd time it so China would just be waking up. Then all hell would break loose and shit would explode. Sometimes they would be nice enough to tell their minions when to get out, but mostly not and they'd be left holding the bag.