# IRON FISH Incentivized Testnet Guide

**Published by:** [chadz](https://paragraph.com/@chadz/)
**Published on:** 2022-02-16
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@chadz/iron-fish-incentivized-testnet-guide-2

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Iron Fish is Level 1 rigid (strongest) privacy protection blockchain. It uses zero-knowledge proof (zk-SNARKs) and the most advanced encryption industry standards. The project provides full control over the details of a transaction via account view keys or transaction decryption keys; Proof-of-Work (PoW) is censorship-proof and accessible to anyone, regardless of location, personality, or citizenship. Requirements as a miner: Ram: 8-16 (16gb preferrable) CPU: 4-16 cores (8-16 cores preferrable) Storage: 100-500 GB Network Speed: 100 mbps- 1 gbps *Iron Fish mining is a CPU intensive task and requires powerful CPU. Renting a VPS from AWS or Digital Ocean is Best way. The leaderboard is available here . If you want to qualify for the rewards you must register on the leaderboard. Run the following command for installation: All these Commands are for Ubuntu! screen -S (your computer or VPS session name) *while installing enter Thread value as -1 to utilize max threads on the machine. wget -q -O ironfish.sh https://api.nodes.guru/ironfish.sh && chmod +x ironfish.sh && sudo /bin/bash ironfish.sh Load the variables: . $HOME/.bashrc . $HOME/.bash_profile Set your node name: ironfish config:set nodeName $IRONFISH_NODENAMEironfish config:set blockGraffiti $IRONFISH_NODENAME The name you specify here must also be mentioned when registering on the leaderboard. Create wallet: ironfish accounts:create $IRONFISH_WALLET Set the created wallet as the default wallet: ironfish accounts:use $IRONFISH_WALLET To get testcoins from faucet: Check your balance: ironfish accounts:balance $IRONFISH_WALLET In addition Before starting the miner, make sure your node is synchronized with the network by running the command: ironfish status -f *It will take 1-1.5 hour to fully sync all the blocks. mining will start only after full syncing! Export keys: mkdir -p $HOME/.ironfish/keysironfish accounts:export $IRONFISH_WALLET $HOME/.ironfish/keys/$IRONFISH_WALLET.json cd .ironfish cd keys ls -a nano [wallet name].json *Note Down the KEYS show on the screen. Hit CTRL+C to enter the command again. clear cd Check the node: journalctl -u ironfishd -f Check the miner: journalctl -u ironfishd-miner -f Once something like this appears on the Screen your done with setting up Iron Fish miner. I Hope this guide has been helpful in Setting up the Iron Fish node and miner. For any Question and Doubt Visit IRONFISH Discord below https://discord.gg/nPv3fFKCZw

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