Difficulty shoots up from 272443 to 296887 and network hash from 5771527362 to 6861833433 in just a few hours. Miners are going to get less coins for sure.
Latest stats:
"difficulty" : 296887.91143143,
"networkhashps" : 6861833433,
If diff is going up, miners get less coins, shouldn't that affect the price go up?
In theory yes, providing the demand stays the same or increases.