my tx is unconfirmed for about an hour now and there were only 21 transactions in the last block. anyone have any idea what it's all up to?
Your BCH tx?
If so, it's probably because the low hashrate of its network, just few miners confirming the transactions.
Most exchanges in maintenance, I think it's too soon to sell ours BCHs.
How many confirmations would bittrex require? Probably many!
BCH hashrate is less than 0,3% of Bitcoins' network

All the crazy because the dump, people can regret it someday, we never know.
I've installed BCH Core wallet in the same PC my of my BTC Core wallet, worked fine, even changing the instalation directory, it gets the blocks from the BTC client, nice, no need to resync all those GBytes of blocks.
Somehow I have a felling that almost all BTC early adopters had in 2009/2010, just a few miners, low hash power, I know it's totally different, sure, but it's nice to participate in moments like this.