Thanks for the info, mate! It is good to know that you can also stake NXT without leaving your wallet open with the option to lease your coins to the other account. Still, what would be the minimum amount of NXT to have in order to begin forging? I have some NXT but it doesn't start forging maybe because I don't have enough NXT to begin with the process.
Anyways, NXT has been one of my favorite alt coins and I hope that with the release of Ardor it would be even better.
I think it's 1000 nxt or so the minimum u need to stake. But do note that returns are also quite low from staking, it's only 1% or 2% per year. Now with the bonus program it's maybe 3%.
Nxt/Ardor is not so interesting if you are only in it for mining and dumping, but if you are in it to build a coin stash that hopefully goes up a lot, and so hold the Nxt/Ardor than you may make great returns, not so much thanks to mining but thanks to the coin going up more as others because it favors investors more than others.