# governance period (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover governance period. Page: Feed: --- ## [MainNet Archaeology 1: Algorand's Birthday](https://d13.co/posts/mainnet-archaeology-1-algorands-birthday/) _2026-06-12 · D13.co_ My Occam's razor deduction that Algorand MainNet launched June 12th, 2019 ## [Algorand Sustainability Proposal: Backrunning MEV](https://d13.co/posts/algorand-sustainability-proposal-backrunning-mev/) _2025-10-15 · D13.co_ This is presented as a personal opinion piece. Views presented here are mine except where explicitly attributed. Preface In conversations about sustainability and fees on Algorand, most of the focus so far has been on: raising the minimum fees, or changing the supply model to inflate/deflate dynamically with usage and to a lesser extent: priority fee ordering - higher fee gets earlier placement in… ## [Algorand Sustainability Proposal: Excess Transaction Fee Rebate](https://d13.co/posts/excess-app-txn-rebate/) _2025-05-15 · D13.co_ This is presented as a personal opinion piece. Views presented here are mine except when explicitly attributed. Algorand fee sustainability has recently come back into the community spotlight. In this debate, there is considerable traction behind the notion that increasing the minimum transaction fee will negatively impact adoption: high volume applications may reduce their on-chain volume (or… ## [Dear Ora: A signable open letter to Ora miners](https://d13.co/posts/dear-ora--a-signable-open-letter/) _2024-11-14 · D13.co_ TL;DR at bottom Preface Let me preface this by stating my own opinion about, and relationship with, Ora. I like Ora. I use Ora. I can even claim to being a kind of Godfather to it, having “given” it asset ID 1284444444. In light of the first Ora halving, I took a look at Ora statistics and mining practices. My objective here is to make a recommendation on Ora mining practices to reduce…