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Lightning Network Exploits: The researchers Jona Harris and Aviv Zohar recently published a paper called: “Flood & Loot: A Systemic Attack On The Lightning Network,” which is similar to the griefing attack. “One of the risks that were identified early on is that of a wide systemic attack on the protocol, in which an attacker triggers the closure of many Lightning channels at once,” explains the paper’s authors. “The resulting high volume of transactions in the blockchain will not allow for the proper settlement of all debts, and attackers may get away with stealing some funds. This paper explores the details of such an attack and evaluates its cost and overall impact on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network.” Furthermore, on June 2, 2020, Antoine Riard and Gleb Naumenko published a paper on another Lightning Network vulnerability called the “time-dilation attack.” One scary fact that Naumenko and Riard disclose about the time-dilation attack, is that it is “currently possible to steal the total channel capacity by keeping a node eclipsed for as little as 2 hours.” Not too long after that issue, Antoine Riard recently discussed another susceptible exploit called the “Pinning Attack.” Riard notes that to the best of his knowledge, “currently deployed LN peers aren’t secure against [certain Pinning Attack] scenarios.” One particular scenario “requires heavy, long-term work at the base layer,” Riard stressed. Source:

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Mutiny Wallet users have reported issues with channels force-closing and losing their sats:

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Channel closed, sats not received · Issue #704 · MutinyWallet/mutiny-web

As reported here: #703 Channel ID 7831ccfb19c81526bee8ae9d316f7c4aaea4ec8ee6b55c77d091441fff2d1e80 "Channel closed because user manually force-clos...

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Channel closed, sats not received · Issue #703 · MutinyWallet/mutiny-web

Hello, I had a force-closed channel at 26.10, sats still not back in the wallet 73b8b54c76d42d336b09632f8be9bb24555ffef737c89a44bfcc680b0964d431

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Forced channel closure aftermath on chain showing 0 · Issue #699 · MutinyWallet/mutiny-web

It's similar to this: #668 I'm opening this because benthecarman asked. my log: mutiny-logs.txt I had some minimal amount of sats that moved to on ...

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Forced close and now balance stuck on chain x1 week · Issue #697 · MutinyWallet/mutiny-web

Hi Tony, I mentioned this issue to you at Nostrville. I had my lightning channels close, and the sats went on-chain. The total is about 150k but on...

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2 Forced channel closures, 24h later on-chain balance shows 0 · Issue #668 · MutinyWallet/mutiny-web

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on chain funds gone · Issue #663 · MutinyWallet/mutiny-web

hey guys. i needed help a few days ago with force closing channels. ben helped me. the funds were back in my wallet, on chain. i logged in this mor...

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Sats missing from mutiny balance · Issue #660 · MutinyWallet/mutiny-web

I have been testing out Mutiny wallet for a few weeks and it seems that I may have lost funds due to a lightning channel close. I am hoping that so...

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2 channel closures · Issue #655 · MutinyWallet/mutiny-web

Received: 496b8a2c3c809f459faa9b351c1362e54130405e36f7f5791e897b00d677ecf9 Channel promptly closed, error message: Channel closed because counterpa...

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channel was closed after ~ 15 minutes · Issue #654 · MutinyWallet/mutiny-web

and that is the message i see in mutiny (web app on ios) this is the activity log: and the log: mutiny-logs.txt

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Channel force closed, funds gone · Issue #634 · MutinyWallet/mutiny-web

Hi there. Got my channel force closed and my onchain funds (1m) don't appear in the wallet. Log: https://github.com/MutinyWallet/mutiny-web/files/1...

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Funds not sweeped after channel force close? · Issue #603 · MutinyWallet/mutiny-web

Hi frens, GM Here is the channel ID: a9b63d1f0144317086c7a7ae0652627a8450985714047255b66fb5841eff4252 These funds were sent from a getalby extensio...

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What the Lightning Network looks like visualized at this moment:

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