Add use-case page: pay for AI services privately with shielded ZEC - #1934
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New use-case page for paying AI services with shielded ZEC.
The forum walkthrough people were using is from 2025 and that route doesn't work anymore, so I built this off a payment I actually made instead of off docs.
Two routes. NanoGPT takes ZEC directly, so that one gets six steps with screenshots from a real $1 top-up. Venice and OpenRouter only take USDC, so there's a shorter section on using CrossPay in Zodl for those.
Doing it for real turned up a few things I haven't seen written down. Credit lands in about 30 seconds, on the first confirmation rather than all three. The minimum is $0.10, so people can try it for pocket change. And you want to send slightly over the transfer minimum, because the quote gets priced when the page loads and ZEC drifts before it confirms. Sending the exact minimum credited me $0.99 instead of $1.00. Sending a bit over credited $1.17.
I submitted the walkthrough video through Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rYE8sHMUshn7-yTaHR4ETtWX1Y7jusq3/view?usp=sharing
Images and the nav entry are in ZecHub/zechub-wiki#718, needs to land first or alongside this.