The answer to both of your questions is: The genesis block hasn't launched yet. Your coins will be transferable once the mainnet is live and the multiplier will be factored when the coins are distributed to investors and exchanges through the genesis block.
There hasn't been an update on the launch since this post: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1543991.msg16797309#msg16797309

Very excited to see the project moving along. I've got some on c-cex too. Hopefully will redeem without any hiccups.

Ah yes I understand what you mean. I can hardly fathom the ideas prople will come up with using this. Im really excited for genesis and fir HEAT to be listed on a few exchanged. I like that fact that there is not so much hype about this coin, for some reason that seems promising. I also think the devs will produce a few little surprises that we dont know yet. They have been quiet but we can see by the alpha client, this team are very good developers.

Another gambling platform is not really a valuable niche to fill, so many are doing it. Heat strength lies in having direct connection to clients of other crypto. If they can make a true decentralized exchange on top of it that works and looks as good as openledger/polo and not require gateway by moving other crypto directly, it will change crypto forever and there really isn't a limit to its growth potential. So far no one has been able to do it, or even come close. no silly tokens as IOU's, literally hyperledger of all ledgers, one ledger to control any of them. I truly hope the focus will be on this big picture stuff and not which exchanges its added on. Where we're going, it shouldn't need other exchanges, it will literally replace them and improve far past them since it's trustless and open source.

The first one that gets liquidity to a decentralized crypto exchange will be the hero. OMNI tries it with futures. I hope heat will NOT be like openledger, so illiquid.

Any word on the release of the genesis block?
Let's get this show on the road!

Definitely not enough people there, also you either need to buy bitshares to use it but that shits volatile, the other option is their open.btc but what is that, some token pegged to btc, i dont know, hard to deposit btc there aswell... didnt work for me... I bought heat from there and it was really hard... First i bought bitshares on polo then i transfered them to bitshares openledger, then bought open.btc there and used that to buy HEAT if i remember correctly..

And if you happen to use Openledger, please make sure to save the backup on atleast 2-3 devices drives and write down the password on a piece of paper.

I've just lost the access to ALL of my heat due to a cache clean on chrome.
I feel horrible.
 

Man that sucks, but hey I know exactly how you feel!!! I too invested in heat bigtime and after reading the whitepaper I realized that I just flushed my money down the toilet and deep down in the sewer there is some greedy ooze eating dick that was just waiting for me to pull the flusher so that my money would be sent right into his pockets. But of course this was not enough... No it got worse... Then I saw the interview on the utubez where these 2 snobs were basically describing what could be called an upgrade to their poorly performing fimk coin client nobody ever heard of. Why make a new coin when you can just upgrade your old one?! But yeah I knew the answer already and it all felt like a Brock-Lesnar-kick straight to the nutz. Oh dat pain... But I got totally roasted when I made fun of the so called whitepaper on bitcointalk and the developer told me that next time I should write the whitepaper. That was it! Fatality! I realized what a fool I was and how it was all my fault. Shame... shame... shame.....

But maybe you can get your one dollar fitty back (which was once a few thousand bucks) by trying to open a second account and claim your heat again, maybe that works. If not try to contact support and ask if you can do that... I know I know... nobody will answer until you complain on bitcointalk that they are not answering your requests... but you know what to do, right? exactly! Do as I do and keep on trolling!