I don't understand why you would give that advice
Then maybe read again the context.
If someone would be - for whatever reasons - afraid of the pool, P2SH is the solution, as the pool simply doesn't search these.
It is far more plausible that this was a "challenge" someone made, to see how long it would take to be solved
Ryan... I take that statement and put it on my stack, where it remains together with your statement, that the 1st 50bits have been searched already.
Both statements will have the same weight on my stack for the time being.
Rico