base
Every candidate hashes artist with a 64-bit little-endian counter appended: sha256( artist ‖ counter ).
ascii8
One byte per character. A match means the SHA-256 hash prefix spells the word in ASCII hex.
targets
rhea and myers, ground from artist — every hit collected, not the first alone. The grind continues.
counters
15,748 winning counter values kept, the deepest at 68 trillion, within a 248 budget per search.