However this great work of his is getting killed by his not so great idealistic distributional model.
Disagree completely. If it wasn't for the airdrop, I would likely never have heard of the project.
What are you disagreeing with exactly?
There still would have been an airdrop right? just not the whales shares auto going to competing projects, exchanges and the already super rich.
2011 of course you disagree I would too if i was sitting on a bunch of sub 1 dollar btc.