I'm not upto speed on all of this project ie spent about 2 minutes.
However you wish to hardfork BTC beginning of 2016? you want major holders to follow your fork?
Why not just create a new chain?
What is the point of using BTC when for a start even a bitcoin advocate could hardly consider bitcoins current distribution as ideal?
Also well before you finish there will already be a bitcoin pos on its own blockchain (another project with significant backing far removed from this forum).
Because he wants his initiative to succeed, not to be just another short lived pump and dump scam. He wants to preserve Satoshi's social contract.