someone is new to this. when trading gets hot the demand on miners to update the public ledger blows up and the fee goes way up. if you want to sell when there's a nice peak it will be 5%. it also charges you more depending on how often you use it. a real flaw with btc. so if you move it from a wallet, then try to sell it in exchange for usd, you just asked for 2 back to back transactions that need miners to update, which blows up the second fee. god help you if for some reason you need to update the ledger more often because that rate can get outrageous. i am quoting the highest fee i saw, which was when btc first hit $16k, it cost me 5% to buy it and a sales tax. then by the time it got up into the $40k range and i sold it i had to move it first and then sold it and that sell fee was like 4.7%, to get it on the exchange was 2.5%.  or maybe you weren't moving as much as i was? it could be related to amount. but i day trade and move etf's all the time and nothing else has fees like this. even a basic ass cashier's check caps at $10 and here i was out tens of thousands on fees. there is a reason btc cannot be the future, it cannot scale it cannot become a currency, no currently is subject to transfer costs like this and surge transfer costs. a cc at a convenience store is like 0.5% for the store, and crypto was supposed to unleash us from these bank fees as a major selling point. but only later currencies figured out ways to fix this, so cardano and later, but ada and such are not widely known and the solution that lets them work as currencies also prevents the ponzi scheme price explosions that people want crypto for.
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