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[grpc-web]: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web


## Payments

### Why am I getting a warning about fee budgets?

When you make a payment on the Lightning Network using Greenlight, the
payment often needs to be routed through several other nodes in the
network to reach the recipient. These intermediate nodes facilitating
the payment charge a small fee for their service.

Lightning Network fees consist of two parts:

- A base fee: A small fixed amount charged per forwarded payment.
- A proportional fee: A percentage of the payment amount.

These fees are added on top of the amount you wish to send. If the
value of your payment is very close to your total available balance in
your Greenlight node, there might not be enough remaining funds to
cover the fees charged by all the nodes along the payment path. In
such cases, even though Greenlight will attempt to send the payment,
it is highly likely to fail because the total amount required
(payment + fees) exceeds your available funds.

For situations where you need to move your entire balance, dedicated
draining mechanisms exist, such as swapping funds out to an on-chain
Bitcoin wallet. These methods are designed to transfer the entire
available amount and handle the associated fees differently, typically
deducting them from the total amount being moved rather than requiring
them to be available beforehand as an extra buffer.
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