1) You won't be able to recover any BTC wallet. Not even the 3000 BTC one you could known the name of the owner of with a simple subpoena to Bitstamp.
Maybe. And yes, you probably can't compel a person to reveal the private key for a wallet. But if they don't, and those are resources that a federal court says should be divided among creditors, you can probably throw the owner in jail. You know, and there are some good people in government. With the right conditions, the kind of guy that investigates white collar crime might love this case. Doing forensics to find out where white collar criminals hide money is a specialty of some people. Like people that prosecute the Mob. Let's hope they get involved.
2) The IP is under another company and it won't be immediate to get access to it. They have probably sold it already 10 times to other different companies in the last 2 days if we known Edward. Yes, the trustee should be able to reverse that, but it's not immediate, and it could go wrong. They had months to get ready for this event. They certainly known a lot we don't.
I am sure they will try their best to keep the IP by arguing it is separate. That's Simon's future. But if Hashfast's resources were used to develop it, and I'm sure they were, then they can't keep it their own. There may be very traceable patent applications. If a federal court demands that they turn over the assets, refusing to do so will land them in serious trouble. They will not be defying some guys on an internet forum anymore, they would be defying a federal judge, typically the kind of person that doesn't like to be defied and has the means to break you will.
3) LB has tens of millions at stake. They won't just be kind with us. They have all the interest to destroy us. Now, the post of Will@IceDrill yesterday suggests otherwise, since that they certainly talked, but who knowns?
Yes, there are competing interests. But again, they have got to do a cost benefit analysis. It may turn out the way you fear but let's not presume that. They may decide that it's better not to fight and to instead cooperate with us, in order to reduce their losses.