Resolves to Yes if I get my laptop with the data intact, or, at least, the SSDs from it.

Last night, my laptop was stolen from a house in London. (I’ll split $1500+ bounty between people suggesting ideas that lead to me recovering the laptop, if it's recovered.)

The laptop’s primary disk was encrypted with VeraCrypt, so it should be impossible to turn on.

By the end of the day:

- The police basically didn’t do anything useful.

- From an ISP, we know that it happened around (possibly after?) 10:54pm.

- I couldn’t get hands on any camera footage, although it likely existed. Owner of one car with a camera pointing straight at the door gave me his email but didn't send anything. The camera ran out of battery at around 11-11:30pm, IIRC.

- Talked to a couple of homeless people in a nearby area, saying I’m happy to give a reward to however returns the laptop. One asked around (including a couple of people “who buy stuff” and later told me that “they can’t get in there [can’t turn on the laptop?], can’t they? Because of a password/key thing”. I confirmed this. She told me that they can’t sell it because of it.

At that point, I became >50% certain that she got in contact with people who have the laptop: the laptop is encrypted and asks for a password before launching Windows.

This happened at around 4:40pm. She told me to meet at 6pm (and that she’s going to buy some weed in the market). I got slightly optimistic. At 6pm, no one showed up (except for me and a housemate). I lost some of the optimism.

This would’ve been a great story to tell if it ended in a laptop recovery. It hasn’t, so instead it’s kinda sad.

I’ve put a couple of posters about a reward for the laptop, with my contact info, but I’m not optimistic.

(Ideas and thoughts are welcome. Please don't manipulate this market in ways that reduce the probability of me getting my laptop back. I'm betting on No to encourage people to bet Yes and be incentivised to help me)