what you see on the coinmarketcap now is the result of these coins being around for a while. not a new coin coming out and getting pumped. any coin that is fresh and has a low price can get pumped to higher prices very easily. specially if you are good at pumping coins and start from a higher initial price.
for example you can see here that a shitcoin with price of $0.14 got pumped 8 million% (yes you are reading it right it is not a bug it was pumped on Yobit) and reached rank #3 in coinmarketcap. it lasted there for a while too and its supply isn't as big as what OP suggests it is only 2 billion.
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and here is my 1+ year old topic:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1842964.0;allCube did -100%, good example : 0,00000001 BTC
I didn't see your thread before, interesting.
this is in a sense issues with wash trading when people sell to themselves to create fake volume.
what the solution will be for that will be interesting to see. probably the more regulated environment will stop that, and with that, lots of shit coins will die..
That's what we are all waiting for, I get so tired with so many shitcoins, every days...