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Summary

Adds a new comprehensive wiki page at site/privacy/Privacy_as_a_Core_Principle.md for issue #1562.

Coverage:

  • Why financial privacy matters: employer/client surveillance, merchant data, authoritarian surveillance, criminal targeting, behavioral profiling — establishes that privacy is a prerequisite for freedom, not cover for wrongdoing
  • How Zcash implements privacy: ZK-proofs (zk-SNARKs, Halo 2), what a zero-knowledge proof proves vs. what it hides
  • The three shielded pools: Sprout (deprecated), Sapling, Orchard — with introducing upgrade and proving system for each
  • Shielded vs. transparent transactions: explicit table showing z→z, t→z, z→t, t→t with privacy levels and implications
  • Unified Addresses: why they improve privacy automatically as sender wallets upgrade
  • Viewing keys for selective disclosure: IVK, FVK, payment disclosure — what each reveals and appropriate use cases
  • Privacy best practices: 6 specific practices (shielded addresses, shielding after exchange, separate wallets, memo caution, address rotation, verifying transaction type)
  • Common mistakes table: with specific fix for each
  • Privacy comparison: Zcash vs. CoinJoin, Monero, Tornado Cash — what makes ZK-proof-based privacy different
  • Summary: actionable 4-point checklist

All sections have explicit {#id} anchors for direct linking as requested in the issue.

Closes #1562


ZEC address (Unified Address):
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Adds a comprehensive wiki page at site/privacy/Privacy_as_a_Core_Principle.md
covering:
- Why financial privacy matters (surveillance, targeting, behavioral profiling)
- How Zcash implements privacy via ZK-proofs (zk-SNARKs, Halo 2)
- The three shielded pools (Sprout deprecated, Sapling, Orchard)
- Shielded vs transparent transaction types with privacy implications table
- Unified Addresses and how they improve privacy automatically
- Viewing keys for selective disclosure (IVK, FVK, payment disclosure)
- Privacy best practices (shielded addresses, shielding after exchange, memo caution)
- Common mistakes table with fixes
- Comparison of Zcash privacy vs other approaches (CoinJoin, Monero, Tornado)

All sections have explicit id attributes for direct linking as requested.
New directory: site/privacy/

Closes #1562

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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