No. He was talking about not having the option of trading BTC directly for TAO so that you could only trade it against USD or alts, which should have the effect of decoupling it from the BTC price. This has nothing to do with being able to deposit BTC or ETH to purchase ODB, which is what I was talking about above.
OK, so you're supposed to be able to trade BTC/alt and alt/TAO, but not BTC/TAO? How does that make sense?
Makes sense to me.
BTC being the base for trading pairs only makes sense because it's familiar, not because it's the only way to do things. He's already said that it's an experiment and he can always add a TAO/BTC pair later if he sees fit to.