Hey nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm this isn’t a good look for you. He is doing live reporting from a war zone, during a period of revolution. This is the kind of thing that can start a mass migration away from you.
Hey Thank you for jumping in our new self-custodial wallet, Alby Hub!!💪
You can send us an email to support@getalby.com
Or since you are running an Alby Hub you can actually directly use the live chat to reach us (almost) immediately. The live chat is in the bottom left corner.
You can also schedule for a group onboarding, and join a group of people that is also joining the Alby Hub membership:
https://cal.com/getalby/alby-hub-group-onboarding
Regarding your question:
"Spending Balance" are your funds on lightning. What you place on your Spending Balance are the satoshis you will be able to spend. If you open a 75.000 sats micro channel with Megalith, you will have to place 75.000 + fees so you have those 75.000 available to use as you wish on your self-custodial wallet. Opening channels do have fees, and those fees will be stated right before you open the channel.
If I may add, if you have enough funds, I would recommend opening a bigger channel, at least 250.000.
Feel free to reach us to our support channels for any other issues or enquiries.
Thanks!
Jean-Paul
Discussion
We definitely have to improve is to communicate beforehand about the needs to put some amounts of funds to open a channel and make it easier to understand what's happening for lightning users.
Channel opening cost. We now open one for free for subscribers. All self-custodial lightning wallets have costs to open channels and those with integrated LSPs also in transaction fees, this is something we can't subsidise. We do not charge transaction fees
What's this monthly subscription fee OP mentioned?
How does self custody have subscription fees?
You don't pay for self-custody, but for cloud hosting. If you host yourself, it's completely free
It costs 21k sats / month, but it's10k sats for first 3 months
Subscription payment is built on nostr:npub19hg5pj5qmd3teumh6ld7drfz49d65sw3n3d5jud8sgz27avkq5dqm7yv9p - it allows us to charge subscription amount from the wallet. You can technically stop it but then we will close your cloud deployment after some time