Hi,
I need to supervise some bitcoin addresses and I need to launch a custom event, maybe a custom sound for incoming transactions (unconfirmed sound and 2 confirmations sound) or sending an email.
I'm thinking about using Bitcore, but 8 GB RAM and more than 200 GB HDD for the blockchain doesn't look like a cheap way to go for such a simple task...a friend of mine suggested me to use electrum, but I'm not sure where to start or if it's possible to use electrum for such a thing. A VPS with 8 GB RAM and 200 GB of HDD is about 50$-140$ USD, and that's just way too much...
I'd really appreciate your advice and suggestions about this little project.
Thanks a lot
Presuming you meant Bitcoin Core, and not bitcore which is something different, you can always enable pruning to cut the block chain storage size down. (And btw, I've seen a vps similar to what you mentioned for less than $100/year. But $50-140/month is way too much.)