guys... anyone know please help.

how big is ether blockchain? i connect with geth --rpc and it's been 5 days now sill not finish. the size of ethereum folder in \local\ethereum about 5.6 GB. and the synchronization is bad, many times just hang and need to restart the command again in new cmd.

and...

can't we just mining in pool (example eth.pool) and using deposit address from trading site? (for example Poloniex) so i don't have to made those geth and stuff again.


thanks.