The embodiment of the invention provides a digital currency withdrawal method and system, aiming at optimizing and upgrading legal currency issuance and circulation systems, improving the safety and timeliness of currency withdrawal, and reducing the cost consumed for currency withdrawal. The digital currency withdrawal method comprises the following steps: receiving a digital currency withdrawal request sent by an applicant, wherein the digital currency withdrawal request includes a digital currency to be withdrawn; performing service verification for the digital currency withdrawal request, and sending a request of increasing reserves against deposit to an accounting data centralized system in case that the verification succeeds; and when receiving a successful response of increasing the reserves against deposit sent by the accounting data centralized system, sending a digital currency withdrawal response to the applicant.