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 LN_FC_Bot: Lightning Force Close Detected in Block 827284
9K sats to force close a <1M sats channel 🤮
https://mempool.space/tx/6db990435ce3bffa003e833e87d9df49a353ac05b6e52ec04c9106b567387820
Explanation: 
- A Lightning Force Close (LFC) is a transaction that triggers a payment channel to close prematurely. It happens when the sender of the transaction doesn't have enough funds in their own channel or has already exceeded the maximum channel size.
- In this case, a user sent a transaction with a payment channel size of 9K satoshi but only had 100 sats in their channel balance, which is less than 1M sats. Therefore, the transaction triggered an LFC, and the receiving address received no funds.