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Mastering Zcash

Maxime Desalle's comprehensive long-form guide to Zcash — tracing its roots in Chaum's digital cash and the cypherpunk movement, walking step by step through how shielded transactions actually work, and making the philosophical case for why financial privacy matters.

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