I was watching the FTC price from the start of the rise and saw something interesting. When the price reached a certain level, FTC jumped up the mining profitability charts and instantly the automated pool at
http://www.multipool.in flicked over to mining FTC, that added about 85MH/s when the rate was only 170MH/s which was a 50% hike that made me smile.
The sustained price increase for several hours has started getting other miners to switch their rigs to FTC and the current block rate for the last 20 block is down to around 15min. Meaning the next diff change will come a couple of days earlier.