ETH to BTC: Swap Ethereum to Bitcoin, No Account or KYC

The deposit address for this swap is on Ethereum mainnet, and it takes native ETH. Before you press send, look at which network your wallet is on. MetaMask and Rabby can switch between mainnet, layer-2 networks and BNB Smart Chain, and your 0x address looks identical on all of them. ETH sent on Arbitrum, Base or Optimism travels on a different chain; those versions of ETH are listed as separate coins in the exchange box.

Gas is paid in ETH from the same wallet, on top of the amount you send. The wallet estimates it from the current base fee plus a small tip, both counted in gwei. If you press Max, the wallet holds back the estimated gas, so slightly less may leave than the figure you typed into the box. Compare the amount on the confirmation prompt with the quote before you approve it.

The deposit needs about 2 to 5 minutes to confirm on Ethereum. After that, most swaps finish within minutes, and the remaining wait is the Bitcoin payout getting into a block.

A wallet lists ETH, WETH and staked ETH side by side, often with similar icons, which makes it easy to pick the wrong line. Only the plain ETH balance belongs on this pair. If you are not sure which one you hold, open it in your wallet or on Etherscan: native ETH has no token contract, while WETH and staked tokens each show one.

Any on-chain Bitcoin address works: native SegWit (bc1q), Taproot (bc1p), and the older formats starting with 3 or 1. Take it from a wallet whose seed you hold, such as Sparrow, Electrum or a hardware wallet, and paste it whole. A Lightning invoice is not an address, so it cannot receive this payout.

Think one step ahead about spending. Each payout becomes a separate coin, or UTXO, in your wallet. When you later send BTC, every coin you spend adds to the size of that transaction and so to its fee. Ten small ETH to BTC swaps leave you with ten coins to move; one larger swap leaves one. bc1 coins are also cheaper to spend than coins on a 1 address.

For privacy, use a new receive address each time. Most Bitcoin wallets generate one automatically, and reusing an old address links every payment it ever received.

When the BTC is sent, your wallet usually shows it straight away as unconfirmed or pending. That means the transaction is broadcast and waiting for a Bitcoin block. Blocks arrive about every 10 minutes on average, so the first confirmation normally follows soon, though some gaps are much longer.

You can follow it without trusting the wallet display: paste your address or the transaction ID into mempool.space. It shows whether the payout is still in the mempool and, once mined, the block that holds it.

Most wallets let you spend coins after one confirmation. For a large amount, many holders wait for a few more before moving it on. If the BTC is headed for long-term storage, receive it straight to your hardware wallet's address. That saves a second transaction and its fee later.

The Ethereum address you enter as the sender address is where the coins go if the swap cannot finish. If a swap cannot be completed, the coins are refunded to the sender address you entered. Use the 0x address of the wallet you are actually sending from. If you send from an exchange account, the ETH leaves from the exchange's address, not from anything you control, and a refund sent there may never reach you.

Each swap has an ID and a status page. Your wallet also gives you the transaction hash, which you can paste into Etherscan to confirm that the deposit went to the right address and was included in a block. Should the deposit be confirmed while the status sits unchanged for a long time, send support@ghostswap.io the swap ID and the transaction hash. Wait for an answer rather than sending the ETH again.

A common reason is consolidation. Someone has been active on Ethereum, using apps, holding tokens and paying gas, and wants to move part of the result into BTC for long-term holding. Bitcoin is simple to keep: a balance on a hardware wallet needs no approvals, no gas reserve and no monitoring of token contracts.

Others are rebalancing. They hold both coins and move between them as their view of the two changes. Pricing follows aggregated liquidity from leading crypto markets and keeps moving until the ETH deposit confirms, and the box tells you the BTC amount before you commit. Ethereum vs Bitcoin sets the two networks next to each other.

Doing it as a direct swap also avoids an exchange account. You send from your own wallet and receive in your own wallet, with no sign-up and no ID in between.