I will donate all 350k of my dogecoin in the pool, but I doubt we will ever get it back.
I had gotten a bit into bitcoin mining before it was big, then got distracted from it. By the time I tried getting back in, I couldn't use my home hardware at all for it. I pretty much gave up at that point. Dogecoin was something that got me interested in mining again, but seeing all my mined coins lost was very disheartening. I didn't even want to think about crypto currencies for the next few weeks, it just got me angy. Then I had an epiphany, I wasn't going to let this defeat me. I took the roughly $140 that my coins were worth and bought another video card for my setup. I'm not going to let this defeat me, I'm going to double down, damnit! Well worth it. Only had the card for less than a week but I'm already having fun with tooling and fine tuning it. I'm also back to browsing forums and sites and checking out the latest cryptocurrencies, though I do worry about those who were let down by this and have yet to restore their faith in mining!