Bitcoin climbed toward $84,000 on Tuesday, Oct 13, 2026, but did not get past it. TradingView data showed BTC/USD up more than 2.5% on the day. It reached $83,944 on Bitstamp, which won back the ground lost in Monday's drop.
The rise came while South Korean stock markets kept falling. Tech and semiconductor shares there are being sold off, and the KOSPI's losses grew. Crypto markets avoided a new decline even as the selling in Korea continued.
Cointelegraph's report links Bitcoin's liquidity to the price staying below $84,000. It does not say how far the KOSPI fell, what caused Monday's Bitcoin drop, or whether the selling in Korea and the crypto price are connected. None of that is known from this report.
For anyone already holding a perpetual position, this story changes nothing directly. It gives no funding rates, fees or liquidity figures for Bitget, Bybit, MEXC or OKX, and its price data comes from Bitstamp, not a perpetual futures venue. A move of about 2.5% in a day changes the value of an open position, but this report says nothing about what holding one costs.
Source: cointelegraph — Bitcoin hits $84K resistance as Korean tech rout deepens KOSPI losses
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