You make a good argument and I agree that those kind of pumps (McAfee) exist, but nothing you said was factual. Even the biggest pumper McAfee, if you look at the coins he tweeted they are still up massively

Agreed.

Small cap stocks are a thing too. My point was that there is more manipulation in the stock market.

The are only a few exchanges that allow you to short cryptos (sell shares that you don't have), and currently none are available to the US. I should've added that in there. I want to also reiterate on