Just want to note that was not supposed to be posted here, as its a 'highly simplified' unofficial explanation of how the system works for people just getting in. The white-paper will better explain it once final draft of that is ready.
This sounds a lot like the darksend+ currently being implemented on test net. Making pools of shuffled coins, at random time intervals.
Shuffling/random time intervals are optional features.
Yes I understood that. I only quickly read the chat log but...
"Does Bob need to cloak his money in advance?
Yes, Bob will need to start this process before he can truly send money anonymously, so he will need to decide beforehand how much of his money he wants to be cloaked.
To make things even better for Bob, the PoSA system has some settings allowing Bob to decide to what degree his money is cloaked.
Bob can decide on the total amount of cloaked coins he wishes to generate, the time delay between the cloaking of the coins (even random times if Bob wishes), the rate of coins that will be cloaked each time (ex.: 10 at a time), and even a special optional setting that shuffles the cloaked coins around to the other PoSA wallets Bob possesses."
This cloaking process is very similar to the function of the auto denomination function of the masternodes in darksend being tested currently. The difference being the shuffling is done locally, vs via a chain of nodes.
Unless I misunderstand it.
Misunderstanding by choice. It doesn't benefit your motives to understand it. Masternodes are obsolete.