Cryptocurrency with less deflationary properties I wonder what is the benefit of having Bitcoin reduce the coins mined per block over time?

Suppose a slightly less deflationary growth scheme was possible (and keep other properties that make Bitcoin desirable), that might encourage more people to use it as an actual currency and less as a hoarding item.

For instance, can another blockchain-network be created that increases 0.5% the coins mined per X number of mined blocks?.
It's technically possible to have a blockchain with any generation schedule, such as X% inflation per year or constant reward per block.

The main reasons for a schedule with an upper bound is:


The Austrian economics school, to which apparently Satoshi and a large part of Bitcoin's early adopters subscribe, says that the optimal situation is that the monetary supply is bounded.
If you want to have some long-term inflation you will need to choose what it is, and any choice will be arbitrary. "0% inflation" is a bit less arbitrary option to anchor on.
One of Bitcoin's key properties is that the monetary is supply is not manipulable, and it's perceptually easier to sell it on this point by saying "The protocol guarantees there will never be more than 21M bitcoins" than "The protocol guarantees that in the long term, there will not be more than 3% monetary inflation per year".