How to Create a "Cold Environment" on macOS Catalina (10.15.5) and Coin Cashew Step 9

Staking & Delegation Setup a Stake Pool
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Please consider the following as an appeal to “fill in the blanks”.

Using the local drives to install and run whatever is necessary to “Make a set of cold keys and create the cold counter file.”

Trying to follow the Coin Cashew guide.

https://www.coincashew.com/coins/overview-ada/guide-how-to-build-a-haskell-stakepool-node#6-configure-the-air-gapped-offline-machine

  1. Generate block-producer keys

“Make a set of cold keys and create the cold counter file.”

AIR GAPPED OFFLINE MACHINE:

cardano-cli node key-gen
–cold-verification-key-file node.vkey
–cold-signing-key-file node.skey
–operational-certificate-issue-counter node.counter

Wonder if someone can explain in simple, clear steps. Please.

Thank you.

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Hi - you have to download and install cardano-cli on macOS machine and execute the quoted command to able to get the keys on that machine.
there is official package available for macOS on IOHK gihub page: Release Bug fix release · input-output-hk/cardano-wallet · GitHub

Once you unpacked cardano-wallet-v2021-03-04-macos64.tar.gz you will have cardano-cli command as well.