In any case, we hope you're starting off 2025 by hashing your data safely, and made sure to stay away from SHA-1! Don't forget to check our blog for more random content: drand.love/blog/2025/0...

We use hashes in our own VRF design in order to provide deterministic derivation paths from our verifiable random beacons to actual random numbers, and you can use the hash function you want for it, as long as its digests are uniformly distributed among all possible byte strings.

A few of the other things we asked ourselves include:
Is the prediction made in 2020 that a SHA-1 chosen-prefix attack would be costing less than $10,000 by 2025 actually true?
What if we could repurpose the bitcoin network to compute SHA-1 hashes?
How about supercomputers?

small correction that it's 1430UTC. @anomalroil.bsky.social will be presenting!