Finding hash less than a target (instead of an exact match)

[xnf0k]

finding a "lower" hash will be relativ simple tough, just throw some random word at the hashalgo as every output starting with 0-9 or an "a" will be "lower" in your meaning, hex is 0-f so with 0-a you have 11 out of 16 possibilities to get a "lower" hash, in other words, statistically speaking around 70% of your given wordlist should result in a "lower" hash

Unfortunately the target I want to use starts with a few zeroes. The b* hex was just an example. It's more like how proof-of-work works, but my case isn't related to mining.

I was hoping to use hashcat for it's multithread and gpu support mainly. A simple cpu script likely cannot find it in reasonable time.

Thanks for the answer! And sorry about the late reply, I didn't know mybb needed to subscribe to the thread manually for notifications.