Think bittrex can lift up the number of confirmations to 100 or 200, and argue that it's for your security. One possible reason is that they at bittrex are in misery and this is why they are trying seeking excuses for the chain being slow. Fractional reserve operating companies quite often practice that.

For sure looks like it. It even looks like the pool is down even though https://pool.viabtc.com/ reports hashrate. If you click on the pool it leads to a 502 error.

guys! wake up! game over!
have to say here, because it looks like you have missed something really important!
it may hurt:
bcc died.
last block mined at 478599 at 16:30 UTC.
i hope this fucking crap will not affect all normal bittrex users, and BTC community as a whole...
just check your precious blockchain - deceased 4 hours ago.

IF thats true. The game stays inside on exchanges. "Buckle your seatbelt dorothy, because kansas is going bye-bye" Price can go to the roof. Really really high on some exchanges.

the game was played inside the exchanges since the beginning of that scam coin - with some major pump behind (due to low volume of coins that was easy possible with limited money) and ping-pong of the coins between users, everyone with coins in paper wallets local wallets could just look at the trading inside the exchanges (btw. i'd my BTC on exchange and dumped that shit coin before it's too late )

This coin is going to die soon:

Bitcoin Network speed: 2.23 tps

BitcoinCash Network speed: 0.32 tps

And difficulty very high at both blockchains...  

Its a good job it has a 8M blocksize because it allows it to hold 4 hours worth of transactions between blocks

When blocks are at normal rates the transactions have would fit easily in a 1M block

this is so interesting to watch

i believed that most ppl would dump it within seconds, but instead of falling the fukin price rose for a while...

Or maybe its just not profitable enough right now but with the transactions in the mempool now probably going to exchanges and once the existing ones being confirmed and crashing the market making it even less profitable than it is now

If the pools are 3 it is nit difficult to make a call and say: "Let's wait some hours to retarget"
This is tipically in shared economy,
or is it called MONOPOLY!!! In our case we know also who monopolize it