It really feels bad when we are not paid for the work we really deserve, but this is how unfortunately most of over-the-internet dealings work.
For 99.9% of the population, $1 Million is a big amount BTW. Feel really bad for your loss, but you need to just learn from mistake and move on and continue to do your work.
It is clear that many will go further, but in fact the project has lowered itself in the eyes of investors and has lost support of the community because of a small amount of money, this is their choice!