Ask any startup founder what their biggest infrastructure cost is. They will point to their Amazon AWS or Google Cloud bill.
"Egress fees." "Storage tiers." It bleeds them dry.
BTFS (BitTorrent File System) is the disruptor.
Because it utilizes idle hardware that people already own, the cost basis is fundamentally lower than a centralized data center.
In 2025, we are seeing a mass migration of "Cold Storage" (data that needs to be kept but not accessed frequently) from S3 to BTFS.
The savings are massive—often 80-90% cheaper.
For a Web3 game storing thousands of NFT assets, this is the difference between profitability and bankruptcy.
The market always moves towards efficiency. Why pay a premium for a centralized brand name when you can get cryptographically verified storage for pennies on the dollar?
The monopoly of the Cloud Giants is ending. The era of the Distributed Cloud is beginning.