What to do to start forging, it still says my effective balance is zero.
publish pubkey
wait 1440 blocks.
Yo don't have to publish public key to forge. Forging itself (if you find a block) will publish public key. 1440 confirmation wait is still needed.
By the way, how many total NFD coins? 4 billion or 10 billion?
Need to have an outgoing transaction to generate the public key.
e.g. send some nfd to self, or register an alias, then wait 1440 blocks to forg.
I know that, but even if someone doesn't have outgoing transaction, they can still forge (after 1440+ confirmation) and if they forge a block that act -- forging a block -- itself will publish the public key
It's good idea to do outgoing transaction for security reasons, but there are big Nxt accounts (millions of nxt) that don't have outgoing transactions but are safe as they have forged blocks.