The 2017 inflation rate is around 15%, and as you can see from the graph we have quite a bit of issuance to go.
We are only in year 3, by year 6 there will be close to 200M ethers. This issuance is independent of the method in in which they are created, POS can potentially release the same amount of coins per block in reward compared to mining.
It is possible that one of the proposals to lower the inflation rate might be enacted before or during the roll out of POS, but it would be a deviation from the intended rate.
source: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/04/10/the-issuance-model-in-ethereum/
It sounds like lowering the inflation rate would only have a minimal impact then?
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