Did anyone get the following output when starting?
[{"deadline":0,"account":"23498739847239847","remaining":0,"hitTime":0}]
Wonder why I see deadline 0 and hitTime 0...
I don't know this for sure. But I think it's right.
There is usually a small vesting time (1440 blocks?) on newly transferred coins before they can stake (protects agains a certain kind of attack). Because you see deadline and hittime as zero, the account is known but has no current forging power. Is also possible there is a minimum (but pretty low) balance required to stake.
Can you confirm this is a new account? Or one with a very small balance?
Yeah I only have 100 HEAT on it at the moment... but I thought that'd be enough.
Seems like it should be enough, value-wise.
For what its worth, NXT has a minimum requirement of 1000. But NXT has 1B coins, not 25M+.
Devs, what is the minimum requirement to forge/mine/stake HEAT? Does it borrow the 1000 number from NXT? If it does, can that be lowered to something more appropriate on the next fork.
EDIT: By requiring a minimum balance to forge, it lessens the amount of time it takes for network nodes to calculate the next forger. So there could be a very good reason to have something a bit higher to achieve the desired throughput of HEAT. Would love a dev comment on this.
And one more thing. For any new accounts (not included in genesis) make one outbound transaction so that your public key is known by the blockchain (plus it secures the account with more bits). I don't think you can forge without a known public key.