Sincerely hope they will manage to handle this. I trusted them from the start and have my three years' savings there. What a stupidity.

In theory you can withdraw your funds from 5k up. So if you have 8k you can withdraw 3k. The rest is on the "card"

100% agreed. But it seems to me that OP isn't considering changing his professional field. Did you mean only researchers and scientists in the above-mentioned companies to be smart people or plain software worker bots as well?