Long term growth? Not sure what you mean by that. But in total there will be 500 million coins. Currently there are 380 million coins. Those 120 million will be distributed through PoS (correct me if I'm wrong)
pos interest 1%/year
maxcoin is 2 billion you can see the code
total pow coins is 380 million,
Ah okay. Was totally wrong. I am sorry, thank for the explanation!
Pretty much all POW/POS coins site the total coins at the number of POW coins. It's true, there's a hardcap of 2b coins in the code, I know - I checked the code on day 1. But the only way to mint coins anymore is through POS... which adds 1% per year. At that rate, in 5 years time, we will still not have hit 400m coins, let alone the initially quoted 500m, which, by the way, wont be hit for about 28 years or so.
So let's not troll out that 2b number in the code. It's never going to get there in your lifetime, or your children's children's lifetime for that matter.