# Initiate withdrawal

Initiates a bitcoin withdrawal. The transaction is not completed until
 it is confirmed by the network it is sent onto. A success response from
 this endpoint means the transaction was successfully initiated, but
 does not guarantee completion.

Endpoint: POST /v1/withdrawals/bitcoin
Version: 0.0.1
Security: apiKey, apiHmac, apiNonce

## Request fields (application/json):

  - `destination` (string)
    The bitcoin destination to send funds to.
 Supported formats:
 - Bitcoin address (bech32, legacy-segwit, legacy)
 - Lightning invoice (bolt11)
 - Lightning address
 - Lightning LNURL

  - `amountBtc` (number)
    The amount to send.
 This field is required for all destinations except Lightning invoices.
 If the destination is a Lightning invoice, the amount is derived from the
 invoice.

  - `accountId` (string)
    The ID of the account to send from. If empty, the default account is used.

  - `isPayment` (boolean)
    Marks the transaction as a payment. This has consequences for how the
 transaction is exported for tax purposes. It has no effect on the
 bitcoin transaction itself.

  - `description` (string)
    Free-form text description of the withdrawal. Can be used to correlate with
 your own systems.

  - `tfrInfo` (object)
    The recipient of this transaction, per EU's travel rule. Required for all
 withdrawals to new destinations.

  - `tfrInfo.fullName` (string)

  - `tfrInfo.country` (string)
    ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 country code

  - `tfrInfo.address` (string)

  - `tfrInfo.nin` (string)
    NIN (national ID number/passport number/driver license number)
 is only required if the TFR config said so

  - `tfrInfo.exchange` (string)

  - `tfrInfo.selfCustody` (boolean)

## Response 200 fields (application/json):

  - `withdrawalId` (string)
    The ID of the initiated withdrawal.

  - `network` (string)
    Enum: "NETWORK_BITCOIN", "NETWORK_LIGHTNING"

  - `status` (string)
    The status of the withdrawal. The withdrawal might immediately succeed,
 if sending to another user of the Bare Bitcoin platform.
    Enum: "WITHDRAWAL_STATUS_PENDING", "WITHDRAWAL_STATUS_COMPLETED", "WITHDRAWAL_STATUS_FAILED"