"What could possibly go wrong?"     So since the teenager isn't going to bail the "adults" out anymore, the hapless adults are left to fend for themselves.  

If Hashfast is on the verge of broke, and it seems to me like they may be, I suspect that individually or severally, Edward, Simon, the apparently departed Scrotum and Long Dong, and god knows who else have probably squirrelled away BTC and/or hardware (the "hidden data center" or something like that).  I sure hope that these various legal processes are set up so that some very aggressive discovery can be done in the personal finances of its current and former directors and employees.  I'll bet a lot of the money did just go "poof" on wild spending, but these guys are such schemers, I'm sure there are some personal "rainy day funds" to be found and distributed to creditors.