Once the block reward is near 1, I believe by then hopefully the community has created a desire to have the currency. This is usually done by some popular trading/bartering website, casinos, reliable fiat store and so on. I would say reddit bartering for steam games and such is usually a good start.
Yes, but even if we have one of the most popular altcoins, the math clearly says that it still cannot sustain a network that can prevent easy 51% attacks. That's my whole point. Raise the minimum then this problem goes away. We don't have to raise the minimum by a lot, the essence is still preserved. Trust me, I want this coin to succeed as much as anyone, I have a modest sum of 25 mil, but if nobody takes the math seriously, I will have to bail until the community decides to come to their senses.
That's the dev's call and it seems like he's going with the original distribution for this coin. I am certain that if we started losing miners like crazy the dev would step up and make a decision to change some things. He would not just let this coin die. He wants to see top succeed just like the rest of us; probably even more so.