Reminder to Everyone
As we (hopefully) approach the launch of NEM sometime in the near-ish future, I think it is important to clarify a few things for everyone now and also encourage everyone who is a stakeholder to check that they have everything ready and prepared for launch to reduce the number of potential disasters and complaints when launch does finally happen.
As patmast3r has said a few posts back, the first thing everyone who is a stakeholder needs to do is to make sure that you still have the private key you received when you redeemed your stake. Without this private key, you will not be able to access the XEM that you are entitled to, so if you have lost it or something then you need to act on this immediately before the NEMesis block is generated at launch.
Secondly, please remember that the testnet we are all using now to beta test is not in any way related to the real NEM network at launch. This means that your wallets, accounts, or whatever else you have created for the testnet will not work on the actual NEM network after launch. So, remember, anything you do on the testnet is just for testing and getting to know how NEM works.
When launch eventually happens, you will be creating a new wallet from scratch just like the first time you ever used NEM and then loading the private key you received when you redeemed your stake to gain access to the XEM you are entitled to based on how many stakes you redeemed. But again, remember that without your private key, you will not be able to access your XEM so you need to make sure you have that stored safely and ready to load into the client after launch.
You can double check your address, public key, and private key by opening up the NEM client. Going to the settings icon gear next to your account number and clicking "verify real account data".
You can then make sure that your address is listed here.
https://chain.nem.ninja/stakes/registered/
