you don't have to import your bitcoin if you don't want to it is optional really only if you want to exchange bitcoin for cred, I have not imported any bitcoin or my bitcoin wallets and I have been mining it. Just it is a sidechain to bitcoin so it runs the bitcoin chain as well as the credit chain.
Well I assumed it would not be a requirement

But if you would do so, it puts your private keys at risk as you need to import the entire wallet.dat file, correct?