The bid needs to come up to 0.0001 or higher. Then, a trader needs to sell some or all of their shares and see if the sale translates into dollars into their brokerage account. If it does, then this stock is alive and well. If it does NOT, then the stock is as you say just "paper." Until the bid comes up, it would seem by the volume that investors believe the stock is still trading.
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