The prohibitive cost of on-chain Linux instances

[zdanl]

I was wondering if this can be narrowed down to a hypothetical full-node hardware requirements specification and network size handling emulation workloads and memory distributedly, not in full sync, actually capable of providing decentralized "cloud" resources on a Blockchain network.

Since the cost of storing a full Cartesi Machine state within the blockchain is prohibitive, all machine states are represented in the blockchain as cryptographic hashes. The contents of those states and memory represented by those hashes are only known off-chain.