Your story reminded me of a friend who also took the risk of betting on Bitcoin by acquiring a miner, it was 2017, precisely at the time when BTC made a staggering gain that took it to almost US$ 20K to then drop to US$ 3K. Obviously he registered a very big money loss for him because on the other hand the machine was damaged and he had to discard it. Unfortunately my friend learned the hard way the meaning of entering into an investment without knowledge of the business, of course, he is a big critic of BTC and cryptocurrencies, from his experience he does not recommend anyone to use his money in this.