Sorry to hear you lost your coins. At least you made some money. I never managed to get in early with these things, but I made a little when DOGE shot up. A guy I worked with was holding a fair few BTC. I don't know if he kept them, but that could be a retirement fund. I suspect a few big Hive players did well from various crypto.
I'm interested to hear the rest of the story...
There will be two more episodes.