In all honesty, if that happened to us we'd probably do the same thing.
It's about the principle at this point.
Bro just won't quit even with a 1 in 902 million chance of finding that Bitcoin, honestly he has better odds pleb mining with a #Bitaxe, but you do you booboo!
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I concede I would likely do the same initially, but I think I would have given up ages ago and focused my energies on rebuilding my stack.
The same way I did when I lost it on an exchange and in shitcoins