You know it's hard to believe what you're saying, actually it's easy to make up a story just to talk about something, but if you tell a story to make other people believe you, you don't show any proof that you actually bought something from an exchange that you took a picture of screenshot anyway, and when the price kicked 0.55$ each of Hex as you say and you have proof of screenshot that you have a balance of 500k HEX in the exchange, maybe in that matter I will believe in you dude. And it's not that I don't trust you, it's just that if you want the story to be credible and believable, you must accompany it with sources of evidence at least.
And we don't know what if he is just shilling that coin? But this one seems impossible since he already said that the coin was shady though there are still people that won't mind it. Look at what happened with luna. Despite of its collapse lots of people are still eager to purchase it. Hex is supposed to be not hated on its early run but it is only hated by the time its value dipped to its all time low and never recovered again.
Maybe those who said that the coin is scam is right because if not then why would the coin remain stagnant for a long time. It's wrong to regret for not investing on a scam coin but we should only regret if we missed a good and legit projects.