How is this possible ? How come more miners are joining the league at such a low price ? Is not it obvious that miners will spend more than what they'll make from mining at this below 300 price and upcoming 12% difficulty jump ?
maybe it's an attack by a malicious party in anticipation of miners dropping out
see here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/hypothetical-price-collapse-and-massive-farms-failure-912190
scenario:
malicious player comes in with additional hash causing higher diff. Next a selloff occurs, miners drop out, the malicous actor turns off his hash:
THE END
interesting how this possiblity is brought up but completely ignored by everyone else.
Im fine being invested in markets with manipulation, you know you're on to a good thing.
btw , what do you mean exactly by saying the next difficultly won't be here until 2017 , if you mean the next halving block reward then that would be in July 2016 & not 2017 (Price should increase there obviously) 
