It's the displacement of ex-Bitcoin miners. The hash power in the large Bitcoin pools [http://www.btcguild.com/index.php?page=pool_stats] has more than doubled in less than five weeks due to the delivery of ASICs, so there are a lot of GPU miners bumped down to LTC that see it as a no-lose proposition since the hardware costs are already sunk.RetardedMonkey said:I think difficulty for Litecoin must have increased quite a bit over night.