Before looking into the actual bitcoin block structure, and realizing this wasn't possible, I thought that maybe hashes were a hash of a hash. A hash is essent

Before looking into the actual bitcoin block structure, and realizing this wasn't possible, I thought that maybe hashes were a hash of a hash. A hash is essentially just some random bytes, there is a small chance that the first hash bytes would randomly all be printable characters that fit the submission format, given that the bitcoin network has already done most of the work finding the small hashes, scanning through the blockchain trying to find a hash with a plaintext that fits the submission criteria, should be much less work.