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Anything completely outside your control ought not to be viewed as a problem. A circumstance, reality, boundary condition... yes. But not a problem.

Purchasing cryptocurrency, deleting the only copy of the wallet a year later, then posting on a forum two years ago that "please give me back all this money"?

If this was outside OP's control, what in the world is inside it?

Now that its gone, its gone, save this last ditch effort.

He didn't "lose" 400k. He lost whatever was in the presale and he learned a really valuable lesson. He'll never forget it.

When the worst thing to complain about is an altcoin investment gone bad, you are doing pretty well in life. It's not about empathy, it's about perspective, and the OP is gonna need the latter to get past it.

He probably got the 1970 ETH during the presale for ~500 USD.