Join the Testnet

Background Process
To run the node in a background process with automatic restarts, you can use a service manager like systemd. To set this up run the following:
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/bitsongd.service > /dev/null <<EOF  
[Unit]
Description=BitSong Network Daemon
After=network-online.target
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[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which bitsongd) start
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=4096
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[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
Then setup the daemon
sudo -S systemctl daemon-reload
sudo -S systemctl enable bitsongd
Initialize the node
First of all you need to initialize the node
bitsongd init <custom_moniker> --chain-id bwasmnet-1
Genesis & Seeds
Copy the Genesis File
Fetch the mainnet's genesis.json file into bitsongd's config directory.
wget -O ~/.bitsongd/config/genesis.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitsongofficial/networks/master/testnet/bwasmnet-1/genesis.json
Set persistent peers
Your node needs to know how to find peers. You'll need to add healthy seed nodes to $HOME/.bitsongd/config/config.toml
export PEERS="[email protected]:26656"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$PEERS\"/" ~/.bitsongd/config/config.toml
Start the Node
Now we have to syncronise the node with the current state of the blockchain. 
sudo service bitsongd start
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journalctl -u bitsongd -f

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