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 Apparently we may have a good solution to the Lightning Replacement Cycling Attack: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-October/022040.html 
 Uff 😓 👍 

"This attack isn't easy. Pulling it off involves:

- opening two channels with the victim.
- routing a payment through them.
- successfully replacement-cycling the victim's htlc-timeouts for Δ blocks.
- without the victim discovering the htlc-preimage transaction.
Despite that, the attack is also hard to solve completely, explained @mononaut in a thread.
@niftynei also held X Spaces explaining the vulnerability." 
 What's the best eli5 for the attack and maybe also for the solution if there is one? 
 My bad, the original link has a pretty good explanation. I only saw the top comment on my feed. 
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