Supposedly this coin became yet another victim of a crew of rogues apparently running around pretending to revitalise ancient coins but really just hijacking the name/identity and spawning a fake blockchain for it, sometimes forked from some long-ago time back before they sold all their coins, so that their "revitalisation" basically is a double-spend whereby they go back in time to a time when they had some of that coin, then fork the blockchain from that point so they can spend their coins all over again, or something like that.
FairBriX has of course been running all along, and traded on the
HORIZON and
Stellar platforms, so in this case it has not been in any way a revitalisation whatsoever just a straight-out hijack, at this point I do not even know whether whatever blockchain, if any, they are pretending is FairBriX is even a fork at all of the original FairBriX blockchain, let alone from what point in history they forked it if it is a fork at all.
What I saw at my end was first a massive increase in hashing power driving the difficulty way way up, then poof all that hashing power gone away leaving the chain to spend what has now been months hashing away with what small amount of hashing power it has left, trying to come up with a new block which will be block 889194.
Some time ago I had a conversation with one of the old time maintainers of old time coins, who informed me of having created, for seemingly that same crew of hijackers, an updated version of FairBriX which at some now far-future block will bring into effect a new difficulty-calculation that will make it easier from that block forward for the chain to re-adjust its difficulty downwards following this kind of "apply massive hashpower then fly by night" attack, but of course with the current low hashpower it looks like it will be many months, maybe years, before the chain ever reaches that block.
I have obtained and now am running that updated code, unlike the old code it builds on newer versions of Ubuntu so doesn't require running the Bionic version of Ubuntu so I am currently running it at one of my houses rather than on my main servers which both of course do run bionic since most old coins won't build on newer versions of Ubuntu.
The debug.log claims that DNS seeds gave it just one address to connect to, but nothing seems to have come of that, currently this instance is still only connecting to my two main servers LFM.Knotwork.com and Server1.Knotwork.net, both of whose debug.logs show they have for a long long time been banning quite a few of the nodes they have tried to connect to or that have tried to connect to them.
Both main servers still have the original genuine FairBriX blockchain, which as I wrote above was abandoned by a lot of hashpower at block 889193 and is still trying to come up with a block 889194.
I have a link purporting to be to a block explorer exploring whatever blockchain the hijackers are using, if any, but the link is dead so maybe their scam ran its course and they flew by night already leaving the link dead?
This is the link I was told was for their block-explorer:
https://fbxscan.io/The block at which the new release of FairBriX node code will begin using a new difficulty adjustment algorithm that will permit faster recovery from these kinds of "apply mass hashpower to skyrocket difficulty then fly by night leaving the chain stranded" attacks is not going to kick in until some block that is still far far in the future, so I am not sure what blockchain the hijackers came up with to continue their scam after they got hold of that new version of FairBriX but the original genuine FairBriX chain could use some hashing help to hopefully get it up to that block number...
-MarkM-
EDIT: The old time maintainer person gave me this link as their new updated FairBriX:
https://github.com/Crypto-Expert/fairbrix/tree/feat/fairbrix-port
