Technically its only "lost" once you have sold.  (if at a low price)

Hi Everyone! Good idea starting this new tread. Found out about it in a Reddit post.
Seems like really strange behavour from the Dev... if you were just scamming, why go to all the effort to achieve what he did? And locking the forum thread is even more confusing. I would hate to fork just to discover that he is coming back after striking a deal with LOL or something.  But the likelihood of that is very very small.

I also do not understand what it means to fork/hardfork a cryptocurrency? Can anyone explain it?