Creating a witness account

For given network, say MAINNET or TESTNET we need to first create a user account using a faucet. 
Faucet ?!
In the blockchain world, account creation services are nicknamed as faucets. They create unique Network Address Identifiers.
To create a Peerplays MAINNET account, the easiest way is to use the GUI wallet available to download from Github.
Creating user in Peerplays GUI wallet is self explanatory.
2. Upgrading the Peerplays account to a witness account
We can do this from the cli_wallet & this includes multiple steps.
1.Buy some PPY (or ask your friendly whale!) from an exchange
2.Upgrade your new account to a Life Time Member (LTM)
3.register and update the witness to the network
For the first step, we need to access the newly created Peerplays account from the cli_wallet. Instructions are given below:.
Obtaining private keys for cli_wallet
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CLI Wallet Setup
In it's own terminal window, start the command-line wallet cli_wallet:
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./programs/cli_wallet/cli_wallet
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To set your initial password to password use:
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>>> set_password password
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>>> unlock password
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Tip: A list of CLI wallet commands is available here: ​CLI Wallet commands​
Get Owner and Active Keys
To generate your owner and active keys use the get_private_key_from_password command:
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get_private_key_from_password your_witness_username active the_key_you_received_from_the_faucet
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This will return an array, with your active key, in the form ["PPYxxx", "xxxx"].
Import Keys into your CLI Wallet
To import your keys, generated in the previous step, into your CLI wallet do the following:
1.Use the second value in the array for the private key.
2.Make sure your username is in quotes. 
3.Import the key using the following command 
Note: Substitute your-witness-username with your own username.
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import_key "your_witness_username" xxxx
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Upgrade Your Account to Lifetime Membership
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upgrade_account your_witness_username true
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Create Yourself as a Witness
Make sure your URL is in quotes. 
Note: Substitute "url" with your witness URL.
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create_witness your_witness_username "url" true
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This will return your block_signing_key
Important: Be sure to take note of  your block_signing_key
Run the following command using your block_signing_key from the previous step:
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get_private_key block_signing_key
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Compare this result to the three pairs of keys generated when you run the following command:
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dump_private_keys
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One of the pairs should match your block_signing_key , this is the one you'll use for future operations.
Get Your Witness ID
Note: Substitute username with you Witness username.
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get_witness username 
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Take note of the id for the next step.
Modify Your Witness Node Configuration
Next the Witness node configuration file, witness_node_data_dir/config.ini, needs to be modified to include your Witness ID (from the previous step), and your private key pair.
Note: Substitute "your_witness_id" with your Witness ID. 
Don't forget to enclose in quotes!
Note: Substitute "block_signing_key" with your block signing.
Substitute "private_key_for_your_block_signing_key" with your private key.
Don't forget to enclose in quotes!
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vim witness_node_data_dir/config.ini
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witness-id = "your_witness_id"
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private-key = ["block_signing_key","private_key_for_your_block_signing_key"]
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Start Your Witness Node
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./programs/witness_node/witness_node
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If your Witness node fails to start, try again with these flags:
Important: Not for permanent use.
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./programs/witness_node/witness_node --resync --replay
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Vote For Yourself
All Witnesses have to be voted in, so start by voting for yourself!
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vote_for_witness your_witness_account your_witness_account true true
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Ask to be Voted In
The following document gives information on the Peerplays Witness voting process and advice on how to get voted in:
Becoming a Peerplays Witness
Once you've received enough votes to become an active Witness you'll start producing blocks at the next maintenance interval (once per hour). You can check your votes with:
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get_witness your_witness_account
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