Register stake address in the blockchain

Before, we created our payment keys and address, which allow us to control our funds; we also created our stake keys and stake address, which allow us to participate in the protocol by delegating our stake or by creating a stake pool.
We need to register our stake key in the blockchain. To achieve this, we:
Create a registration certificate
Determine the Time-to-Live (TTL)
Calculate the fees and deposit   
Submit the certificate to the blockchain with a transaction
Create a registration certificate:
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cardano-cli stake-address registration-certificate \
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--stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey \
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--out-file stake.cert
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Once the certificate has been created, we must include it in a transaction to post it to the blockchain.
Determine the TTL
As before, to create the transaction you need to determine the TTL querying the tip and adding some slots to give you sufficient time to build the transaction.
Draft transaction
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cardano-cli transaction build-raw \
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--tx-in b64ae44e1195b04663ab863b62337e626c65b0c9855a9fbb9ef4458f81a6f5ee#1 \
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--tx-out $(cat paymentwithstake.addr)+0 \
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--ttl 0 \
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--fee 0 \
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--out-file tx.raw \
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--certificate-file stake.cert
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Calculate fees and deposit
This transaction has only 1 input (the UTXO used to pay the transaction fee) and 1 output (our paymentwithstake.addr to which we are sending the change). This transaction has to be signed by both the payment signing key payment.skey and the stake signing key stake.skey; and includes the certificate stake.cert:
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cardano-cli transaction calculate-min-fee \
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--tx-body-file tx.raw \
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--tx-in-count 1 \
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--tx-out-count 1 \
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--witness-count 1 \
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--byron-witness-count 0 \
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--testnet-magic 1097911063 \
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--protocol-params-file protocol.json
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> 171485
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In this transaction we have to not only pay transaction fees, but also include a deposit (which we will get back when we deregister the key) as stated in the protocol parameters:
The deposit amount can be found in the protocol.json under stakeAddressDeposit:
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    ...
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    "stakeAddressDeposit": 2000000,
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    ...
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Query the UTXO:
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    cardano-cli query utxo \
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        --address $(cat payment.addr) \
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        --testnet-magic 1097911063
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    >                            TxHash                                 TxIx        Lovelace
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    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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    > b64ae44e1195b04663ab863b62337e626c65b0c9855a9fbb9ef4458f81a6f5ee     1      1000000000
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So if we had 1000 ada, to calculate the change to send back to payment.addr we run:
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expr 1000000000 - 171485 - 2000000
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> 997828515
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Submit the certificate with a transaction:
Build the transaction:
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cardano-cli transaction build-raw \
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--tx-in b64ae44e1195b04663ab863b62337e626c65b0c9855a9fbb9ef4458f81a6f5ee#1 \
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--tx-out $(cat paymentwithstake.addr)+997828515 \
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--ttl 987654 \
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--fee 171485 \
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--out-file tx.raw \
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--certificate-file stake.cert
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Sign it:
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cardano-cli transaction sign \
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--tx-body-file tx.raw \
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--signing-key-file payment.skey \
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--signing-key-file stake.skey \
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--testnet-magic 1097911063 \
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--out-file tx.signed
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And submit it:
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cardano-cli transaction submit \
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--tx-file tx.signed \
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--testnet-magic 1097911063
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Your stake key is now registered on the blockchain.
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Contents

Create a registration certificate:

Determine the TTL

Draft transaction

Calculate fees and deposit

Submit the certificate with a transaction: