SBF on Twitter: "@lex_node so if you look at the updated blog post (https://t.co/O2nG1VK5ft) I actually call out etherscan explicitely as something that shouldn't count; thanks for pointing out that my prior language could have been read that way!" / Twitter

the trick here is that he's citing FTX and Fidelity as examples of "centralized", but he also seemingly thinks any blockexplorer/JSON object generator is "centralized" if any aspect of it is hosted by anyone anywhere mere websites must not be regulated broker/dealers

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1) Whelp, that was an interesting few days. A retrospective.

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etherscan must not be required to be registered as a broker dealer, merely because it "faciltiates" trades by displaying data & helping generate a JSON object same is true of more specialized block explorers that pertain to more limited data

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so if you look at the updated blog post (ftxpolicy.com/posts/possible) I actually call out etherscan explicitely as something that shouldn't count; thanks for pointing out that my prior language could have been read that way!

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Possible Digital Asset Industry Standards

Draft of a set of standards that we as an industry could enact to create clarity and protect customers while waiting for full federal regulatory regimes

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but every DeFi website is just a specialized version of etherscan; I don't see how you can coherently draw the line between them

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also, neither etherscan nor any DeFi website is a "tool...for on-chain interfacing"...interfacing occurs at most through wallets, but really through nodes... the websites are just supplying information & a tool for figuring what message a user *could* send through other channels