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  "title": "Bitcoin withdrawal fees versus network fees",
  "description": "Reconcile a Bitcoin service withdrawal fee with the amount received and the miner fee, especially when withdrawals are batched.",
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    "text": "A Bitcoin service’s withdrawal fee is an account charge under that service’s terms. The miner fee is the input-minus-output difference of an on-chain transaction. They need not be equal, especially when a service batches several withdrawals. Read the final service quote, supported route and net recipient amount instead of treating a quoted withdrawal fee as a universal network price.",
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      "heading": "Read the final confirmation screen",
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      "paragraphs": [
        "Kraken’s cited support page says withdrawal fees can change and that the final fee appears at confirmation. This is a documented example of service pricing, not a claim about every platform or a current fee recommendation.",
        "Determine whether the entered amount is the recipient amount or the total account debit. Also verify the chosen route: an on-chain Bitcoin withdrawal and a Lightning withdrawal require different receiving instructions."
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      "heading": "Compare debit, receipt and chain fee separately",
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        "Suppose a hypothetical service debits 100,000 satoshis and delivers 98,000 after a quoted 2,000-satoshi charge. The service may place that output in a batch whose total miner fee is 5,000. Neither number tells you that your individual withdrawal alone cost 5,000 on chain.",
        "Allocate the 2,000 as the service charge in your own record. The batch’s miner fee describes its whole funding and output set. Dividing it equally among outputs is merely an analytical assumption, not a published customer fee schedule."
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      "heading": "Avoid underpaying a fixed invoice",
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        "A withdrawal that deducts a charge can deliver less than an invoice requests. BTCPay documents partial payments caused by fee deductions. Match the expected net output to the merchant’s amount before approving.",
        "A low headline withdrawal charge does not establish a compatible route, prompt processing or successful merchant settlement. Check those independently."
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      "question": "Why does the explorer show a different fee from my withdrawal quote?",
      "answer": "The explorer reports the transaction’s miner fee. Your service quote describes its own account charge, and one transaction may include multiple withdrawals. The two figures have different scopes.",
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      "question": "Can I choose the miner fee for an exchange withdrawal?",
      "answer": "That depends on the service’s interface and policies. The withdrawal quote does not itself give you control over input selection, batching or the fee rate used by the service’s signing wallet.",
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