im wondering if this is related to the bitcoin cash split from November 15th, i.e. BCH-ABC versus BCH-SV. whoever "wins" that hard fork will get the BCH ticker, and last I checked it looks like BCH-ABC was going to get it. However, because of all the turmoil, lots of exchanges halted bitcoin cash trades until the dust settled.

you would think that bitcoin cash stuff would not affect BTX stuff (at least I would); however there is some confusion between the bitcore currency that this thread is about (i.e. BTX) and a bitcoin-generic library also unhappily called "bitcore."  I saw this confusion just the other day - go here : https://coin.dance/nodes .  ever since the fork, there have been lots of press articles about the fork, and many of them have been referring to coin.dance as a way of looking at live statistics to determine who is winning the "war" between the two flavors of BCH.  anyways, note that the page above mentions a bunch of types of bitcoin nodes. the one with the second highest value is labeled "Bitcore".  "is that us?" I thought. but when I clicked on the node, the description was of the library, not of BTX - and the link to the homepage links to the library's home page, not the BTX homepage. It's not clear to me yet if this is a mistake on their part and it SHOULD link to BTX's home page (in which case I would tell them about it), or if it is supposed to be the library. some of the other node types appear to be their own coins (such as bitcoin unlimited) which would resemble BTX's situation; while other node types such as BitcoinJ are libraries, which would resemble the 'bitcore library' situation. (you have to scroll down towards the bottom of the page to see BitcoinJ listed).

maybe people from the exchanges are halting BTX thinking that it represents something to do with the 'bitcore library' used by bitcoin ? or perhaps they are temporarily halting all forks of bitcoin; though i would think that news stories would have proclaimed this already as a policy of some sort. If anyone out there is holding coins from bitcoin forks other than the BCH ones and BTX, do you have any problems transferring from an exchange to a private wallet ?