Can I mine bitcoins from the library?

[dxarmbar06]

I'm reading about bitcoin mining and from what I gather the biggest downside is that it costs more in electricity to mine than the currency is worth...what if I go to my local library and plug into their outlets where I don't have to pay for electricity? Would that work? I'm not working right now and basically spend all day down at the library anyway, does it sound plausible?

[Aklosh]

yup if you wana to study that book can make it

[Joe]

You'll have to decide for yourself whether stealing from the library is evil.

Somebody still has to pay the electric bill.

From a practical standpoint, even with big racks of custom high-speed GPUs doing the job, mining bitcoins takes A LOT of real, ("wall clock") time. With an off-the-shelf laptop, you're working with your foot in a bucket, and will probably overheat the laptop long before you get a single bitcoin.