Raoul Pal is very bullish on ETH merge saying ETH will flip BTC after it. Although it may not be possible, a lot of people are going to be bullish, of course, ETH holders are also hyping it for a long time. If this is really the cause of this buying frenzy, it's time to also hold ETH.
Could this also be the reason why ETC is rising up? Miners must be moving to this token.
Everyone is bullish on ETH right now because of this anticipated merge, so who knows, maybe we can see a good surge in price. However, someone mentioned about the Flippening again, I doubt that it will happen. Bitcoin will still remain on top of the food chain and ETH is still going to be in the second place.
However, the effect of this might not last that long, maybe ETH can move past $2k again or even $3k. But I'm not expecting a huge rally to established a new all time high, not in the current state of the world today.