With the 51% attack that happened on it, I think this bull run is waking up every coin that it can base on what the investors want to wake up. With the upcoming transition of ETH to POS and other updates.
I think ETC is getting livelier due to those miners that are seeing its profitability as they mine it.
Quite true, ETC also Doge fully shows that speculators can raise the price of any coin as they want regardless of its advantages or disadvantages, ETC suffers a lot of problems and its network is weakly protected, but despite this its price has risen fantastically.
Also, its ease of mining will make miners flock to mining ETC because of its high price and this will bring them huge profits.
That's a sure thing as for mining, I think that's main reason aside from we're in the altcoin bull run.
-Presumably, after bitcoin recovered and flattened, institutional investors saw a huge benefit to ETC after the Mantis development team made a big step forward with their product coming.
I didn't know about this Mantis development but it might be another one reason that contributed to its rise recently.
I think ETC is getting livelier due to those miners that are seeing its profitability as they mine it.
I think this is the reason behind ETC's increase. Of course, market's bull run also contributes to that. Although ETC is a good coin, but 900% increase in just 3 months is insane. Even a shitcoin couldn't pump that way. ETH's migration to PoS is good for both ETH and ETC. ETH network becomes more efficient while ETC gets more attention from miners and investors.
I don't think it's a good coin but until it has risen with that gain, everyone who sees the gain will start to say that it's a good coin. That gain that it has made really takes the attention of everyone that's being amazed on that percentage.