It's not about 'inflation' it's about hyperinflation. Nobody is treating crypto-currencies as currencies, they're treating them as investment vehicles so the current trend is to create a hyper-deflationary 'currency' so you can tell your original investors that they're 'in on the ground floor' and they have a reason to believe it. You get those guys in, they're incentivized to spread the word, they do so and boom we get what we keep seeing, the fear of missing out and greater fools driving speculation bubbles.