Bitcoin stalls below $80K as traders brace for Thursday's inflation report

Bitcoin has spent the past two sessions doing very little, pinned between $77,600 and $80,000 while the market waits on a single number. Thursday's CPI print is the catalyst everyone is positioning around: a soft reading revives the case for a Federal Reserve rate cut and could push bitcoin toward $82,000, while a hotter-than-expected number sends it back to test $77,000.