SLCW on Nostr: Aside from the fee to open the channel, which is usually under 10k sats, the money ...

Aside from the fee to open the channel, which is usually under 10k sats, the money you put into the channel remains yours. It'll be available to you when the channel gets 3 confirmations and is open. I went through the process a little under a month ago and it cost me like 7500 sats to open the channel and the 200k I sent as my initial deposit was fully available to me as soon as I got the 3 confirmations. That's in addition to the 10.5k Alby Cloud subscription fee (if you're using Alby Cloud). So, my total expense to get everything going was 18k.