December 2017 were crazy times in crypto. John McAfee would promote a "Coin of the day" for like two weeks straight and the price would sky rocket immediately.

December 2017 were crazy times in crypto. John McAfee would promote a "Coin of the day" for like two weeks straight and the price would sky rocket immediately. People had bots to watch for his tweets to programmatically place market buys on exchanges right away before the pump in price from flood of people buying the coin.