looks like all withdrawals even on alts have been halted now.

Uh-oh, there are going to be some very disappointed (former) Dash bagholders.

Cryptsy has been really good for me
Big Vern is known and US based, and no one has ever lost money there over a very long time. I will continue to use cryptsy and recommend it until they give me a real reason not to.
Maybe if the Minotaur ever participated in threads besides Dash's [ANN] he would have seen this coming months ago, like the rest of us.