Just a few questions though:
1.) I have a NEM private key and address. I looked up my address on the block explorer and all my coins seem to be there. Is there a timeframe in which I have to enter my private key into the client or can collect my real NEM a week/month/year from now? I assume it's the latter?
2.) Why does it say "Status: Locked"?
3.) Can I start forging without doing any transactions? Just the NEM sitting in my account from the genesis block? According to the block explorer, my importance score is 0.1%. Is this good?
4.) Is Poloniex the only exchange that NEM is currently trading on? I only bought 0.1 NEMstake which means I only have 225,000 coins and I'd like to bring this number up to 1,000,000 eventually.
1) As long as you have your private key, you can access your funds at any time as long as NEM itself still exists.
2) Not sure.
3) Yes, if your account is in the Nemesis block then it is fully vested and ready to harvest right away. As for your importance score, I don't think there is really any way to tell if it is "good" or not. The higher the better, of course.
4) Currently only Poloniex but BTC38 and Bittrex should have XEM up for trading sometime soon.