Malcolm’s Mainnet Root Node Public Address

A11863a92a9a0870fda6fF1b200D1D50FA9D11ae

External References

My Linkedin profile, established 3rd May 2004 https://www.linkedin.com/in/malcolmross1/

Residence

Merlin Consulting Ltd. – PO Box 1053, 25 South Street, VLT 4000, Valletta, Malta

Registered business address – 93, Mill Street, Qormi QRM 3103, Malta

Statement on Commitment of Stake

I understand that I may collect rewards from acting as a root node in the Q system regardless of whether such rewards may be seen as arising from the Root Node Tokens. In my role as a Root Node, I commit to accumulating a stake of 250.000 (two hundred and fifty thousand) Q Tokens (the “Stake”) and subsequently to maintaining the Stake before using any Q Tokens accumulated in excess of the Stake.

Why you should accept me as a Root-Node

I suggest the following two reasons why you should accept my candidacy to become a Root-Node on the Q-Blockchain:

I will be a useful addition to the root node panel and helping decentralised governance in Q because I am particularly committed to participating in achieving and improving specific aspects of Governance, as this is a key component in the societal shifts I am most concerned with.
I will act independently and with a sense of responsibility towards the Q system because: I bring a mindset that checks “are we doing the right things”, to ensure we are most effectively leveraging “doing things right”. I am particularly committed to participating in achieving and improving specific aspects of Governance, as this is a key component in the societal shifts I am most concerned with

1. I am particularly committed to participating in achieving and improving specific aspects of Governance, as this is a key component in the societal shifts I am most concerned with.

I am strongly motivated to contribute to building a society that draws much more on its “collective intelligence”. I see this as an ecosystem whose scope goes beyond “Stakeholder Capitalism”, to include the individual’s personal economy and social interactions. In principle, it is more effective and more appropriate to have decentralising decision-making on social and economic transaction within the level of community most concerned by the outcome. IT and telecom tech enables this. The challenges are this massively multiplies the number of nodes that need to reach a consensus in each conflict of goals and interests; it massively multiplies the number of such conflicts that need to be resolved.

I am inspired by Q’s ambitions to achieve a Governance process that “tames the Wild West” of Blockchain platforms and over-hyping aspects of the DeFi sector. This Governance seems to be a key component to enable “collective intelligence”. This is why I am particularly committed to participating in achieving and improving specific aspects of Governance

I see Blockchain as one facilitator of decentralising and democratisation of many aspects of our communities. The Q Governance approach is perhaps a model and a workshop for developing better mechanisms to call on the communities’ “collective intelligence”. It combines consensus, expert committees, community-responsive constitution that is enforced by open-access code, safeguarded by the Root Node governance layer. The participating and also the responsibility and accountability are indelibly captured by the blockchain.
I see the specific Q-blockchain as a vehicle to develop (then constantly improve) Governance of distributed ledgers. As experience with this approach grows, I can see this becomes (one of) the generic “DNA” for all distributed and collective IP, transactions and “news” platforms. This will be applied in increasingly broader scope of functions within communities, society and democracy.
In achieving this, I see as essential to incorporate in the Governance platform mechanisms encouragement and incentives towards “good behaviour” to balance rules and enforcement that penalise “bad behaviour”
Just as essential is to ensure the great majority of transactions are related to adding economic (and/or social) value in the “real world”, rather than speculative financial engineering. I want to participate in the development of valuable and ethical applications that are sustainable, add economic value and improve the well-being and welfare of communities:
- Target and promote ASPs (application service providers) that lead to such transactions
- Promote the broader “decentralised ecosystem” agenda, so more token-holders do more of their economic and social interactions and transactions on the blockchain
- Build in mechanisms that, if it becomes desirable, could be used to enforce any Constitution policy for transactions

2. I bring a mindset that checks “are we doing the right things”, to ensure we are most effectively leveraging “doing things right”

As an “old school” consultant, I know providing “duty of care” to the long-term benefit of the ultimate “client” consistently provides better value than an echo-chamber that reinforces what the short-term mandate wants to hear

I add the contrarian perspective. I am the “Man from Mars”, taking a huge “step back” to put the entire picture in perspective. I am the Court Jester” who can tell the King the truth without getting my head chopped off
In big projects, I provide the “Quality Manager” perspective – checking and rechecking “are we doing the right things” while other team members ensure “we are doing things right”

MCL Q Root Node

Malcolm Ross’s Root Node Application

1. I am particularly committed to participating in achieving and improving specific aspects of Governance, as this is a key component in the societal shifts I am most concerned with.

2. I bring a mindset that checks “are we doing the right things”, to ensure we are most effectively leveraging “doing things right”