Bitcoin would still have the same rate of monetary inflation. If you want to change the growth in the money supply you need to change the slope of the curve not the nominal value.
Cutting a block reward from 48 to 1 certainly does change the curve but there is no free lunch. You are simply stealing buying power from future miners to increase the buying power of you pre-mined coins.
If I had the option. I wish 100% of the coins were pre-mined and the future mine rate was 0 per block. Suppose someone created a coin with 100,000,000 pre-mined. The owner of those 100,000,000 want to see the economy grow to make his coins worth more. That coin would be worth nothing. Then suppose he put some up for auction maybe 1,000,000 for $1. A couple nerds buy. Then a couple nerds set-up a business to do some programming for some coin. Before you know it it gets on an exchange and it starts to have value. maybe 0.0034 per BTC. Suppose it seems to be traded FBX or TBX. Each of these coins still trades 20 times a day at btc-e. At this point all new mining hurts the price of the coin. Without the mining the price would only be dependent on the number of users and trades. Owners of coin like to see their coin go up. If they don't think it will go up, they will sell it, only using the coin fiand when they need to. I think I read an article where a Howard Johnson hotel accepted bitcoin as payment, but when they got the payment they immediately sold the bitcoin for usd. They had no faith in the currency. A dropping currency is sold and a rising currency is bought. Suppose after a couple years the coin is now worth 2.3 BTC per coin. Since the price rose, the people will want to hold it to delay gratification or to pool money to buy a larger ticket item.
This is what happen to bitcoin. The price hit $2 and since the price was rising people wanted it. it rose to $20 due to supply and demand. At that point the miners were making as much as the new money coming in. When the hype money slowed the price of bitcoin dropped. transactions per day slowed. As it dropped, it dropped more and more as people sold due to the dropping price and the new mined coins added to the supply. When it hit $2, new and old buyers came in and started buying again to equal the new mined supply.
Congratulations on having way back then intuited the utility of several of the Galactic Milieu currencies including UKB, CDN, MBC, GMC, GRC NKL and UNS (the "big seven" Galactic currencies).
I get the impression though that you were not at that time aware of their existence?
Or maybe you just were not aware that they exhibit the characteristics you were arguing in favour of?
You even might have helped in the above quote to lead me to trying to convince them to give up their old blockchain based clients (clones of bitcoin which for each of their currencies implemented their currency instead of testnet, so they could use the same executables for bitcoin or for their own currency just as normally with bitcoin clients one could use them for bitcoin or for bitcoin's testnet) in favour of using tokens: see the later in this same thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.638370
In the intervening years the idea I had then (distribute someday a blockchain currency by giving it out to the holders of the token) has not yet been needed in the Milieu but we nowadays see it happening a lot with projects first using a token then later launching a blockchain.
Seminal thoughts indeed it seems, re-reading these old threads has been very worthwhile.
-MarkM-