When hybrid mining and eventually full POS will happen, price will naturally increase because the pressure miners put on price ( by selling ) will cease to exist.
The curent miners will split among the several gpu mining projects out there, but since their market valuation is low, and if their value doesn't increase, then most miners will be forced to sell their video cards.
ETC's hashrate increased because it, like several other projects, got pumped out of blue without any reason. Therefore it lured some more hashing power.
Remember this: in 1 year time ETH's new floor will be around 100usd. ETH will get anonimity in summer with metropolis, mass offchain scaling with raiden in 1 month.
Brendan Eich, founder of mozilla and javascript's programming language, he and his team will hold an ico on ethereum. They are building a web navigator, called Brave, with adblock included, and with an option to disable adblock and basically get paid for enabling ads. Currently, not having adblock enabled is a pain in the ass because sites load slower, they are annoying, and all the benefits are going to the advertisers/sites/products advertised. With Brave, they will have to share their profits.
Some other fresh news:
http://www.coindesk.com/the-united-nations-wants-to-accept-ethereum-and-bitcoin-and-soon/https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-based-food-blockchain-issues-demo-starts-testing-phasehttps://twitter.com/ConsenSysAndrew/status/856335397726670849Billionaires, academics, institutions, corporations, they are all interested and one way or another working on ethereum. There are over 250 corporations interested to join EEA.
Ethereum is not bitcoin. All the talks around bitcoin is so delusional, something like this:
"how much do you think BTC will worth in 10 years? Will BTC replace fiat system ? Why isn't everyone using bitcoin ?Meanwhile, ETH's talk subjects revolve around dapps, different kind of projects, development, scaling, privacy, institutional interest, corporate adoption, academics implementing ethereum in universities, etc.