Welcome to speculating. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. You took the risk, take responsibility for your choice. If you want guaranteed money get a job.
Personally, I thought speculating on a coin being produced by an established, reputable company rather than an anonymous dev mitigated some of the inherent risk in investing.
Launch mining is inherently speculative across the board, no matter who is launching the coin. There's almost always some issue somewhere that you're going to lose time on