The quick monetary expansion at the start, and the slower rate of expansion later on, actually had a very positive, yet unintended side-effect: It allowed Darkcoin to achieve a very low inflation rate. If every coin was mined at a consistent rate, the rate of issuing new coins would debase the value of existing coins significantly more. Compared to other PoW coins that started around the same period, Darkcoin has the lowest inflation. This allowed it to maintain and increase value when other coins were crashing under the weight of their insatiable demand for new BTCs (that were needed to buy their daily production).

The problem of high inflation in new coins, which tends to suppress their price as supply rises, has now created a new trend where some of the newer coins which are designed, either use a short mining period and Proof of Stake or continue with PoW but with a diminishing mining reward after a few days/weeks/month to reduce the problem of inflation.