The initial explanation of the attack was found to be confusing, so the sender provides their understanding of the attack.

According to their understanding, the attack begins by double-spending the victim's timeout HTLC transaction with a pre-image revealing HTLC transaction. This is not considered an attack because the victim can still safely receive their incoming HTLC using the pre-image, as the timeout hasn't expired yet.

The key aspect of the attack lies in the fact that the attacker double-spends their own transaction before it is included in the blockchain. The third transaction involved in the attack only double-spends some input controlled by the attacker, which is also used by the pre-image HTLC transaction.

In an ideal condition, the victim remains unaware of the pre-image transaction and does not know the actual pre-image. The attacker's focus is on attacking the mempool of the mining nodes. The victim may not even realize that their transaction has been replaced and might only be confused as to why it has not been mined.

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