francs.paris main site is down since 2 days.
explorer.francs.paris is also down .
coinmarketcap does not show data.

Is this Project closing down ? or what? Whats happening? Should I sell? Any pointers ?   

Thanks. I have tried this method. Looks like the cgminer (built into Antminer) accepts only stratum. It shows pool status as "dead" .

Are you using this method?

Antminer l3+

Sent mail to Law but no response. Is it possible to solo mine with ASIC miners?  Any help will be appreciated.

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Nope... like i said earlier, newbie and not very smart   but it seems to me that being on ubuntu, i have to use the online wallet, which doesn't have the mining feature
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I am on Ubuntu (16.04) too . Have compiled the wallet(both GUI and console) from source. Have sent and received Francs from Yobit. Works fine.