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For anything requiring fast hashing performance today, is there a reason why Blake2 [1] wouldn't be chosen? It seems to be faster than SHA1 and uses a similar algorithm as SHA3. As collisions become easier to create I would think it'd cause a problem in many even insecure use cases. I'm pretty sure github had to blacklist those two pdfs that originally had the same hash.

[1] https://blake2.net/



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