Some quotes I found interesting:

About L2s:

I also think that the question of whether L2 pays enough transaction fees to L1 should not be viewed too short-term. For example:

Before 4844, everyone's complaints were the opposite: Is L1 sucking the blood of L2?

Currently, the blob fee for the last 30 days is 500 ETH

If the blob target is increased from 3 to 128, according to our plan, if the blob gasprice is the same, it will burn 21,333 ETH per month, 256,000 per year.

About Ethereum POV (aligned with what Kiwis have been saying!):

I think the blockchain community, and the world as a whole, is in a dangerous state. There are many things happening that have no long-term value, or are even malicious, and these things and the people behind them have received a lot of attention.

But we can't just shout against these things and not come up with a better alternative. So our goal should be to do this alternative well and demonstrate that a stable, brighter future is possible.

About different POVs:

For example, many people in the blockchain circle would say 10 years ago that the goal of blockchain is to be a global neutral system, protect personal freedom, and counterbalance government hegemony. Now, if a president issues a memecoin, they will say, wow, this is real world adoption, so good, but why is it happening on other chains? If we can be more friendly to those politicians, it will happen on our chain next time! I personally think that such people have gone astray. Of course, they will say that I am too purely idealistic, unrealistic, etc. Each side has its own story.

Another one about Vitalik's perspective on communications:

I think there is only one suitable way for us to get out of these predicaments: we need to have some updated stories to explain why Ethereum exists, what the ETH coin does, what L1 and L2 do, etc.? This is no longer the era of infra, but the era of applications, so these stories cannot be abstract "freedom, openness, anti-censorship, solarpunk, public goods, etc.", and some clear application layer answers are needed.

About changes in EF:

The Ethereum Foundation has been going through a lot of internal changes in recent months, so any answer I can give now will be outdated pretty quickly 😂

It might be better to ask again in 6 months.

About moving away from Telegram:

Vitalik: This is also a question that I am very concerned about. I have been working hard to move most of my conversations from Telegram to Signal in the past two years. But Signal is not perfect either. Although it is confidential, it is still centralized, has no interoperability, requires a mobile phone number to log in, and the server sees a lot of your metadata, etc.

But it is difficult to make a higher quality messenger. I try Status every year. They try to be completely decentralized. They do a good job, but they still have some reliability issues. In fact, there are various small teams making their own messengers, but they are not united, so it is easy for each one to be not good enough.

I recently started using fileverse to do my various documents. I found that the user experience is good enough, and now many people in the foundation use it. If there is a decentralized, encrypted messenger that can achieve this quality, I will definitely work hard to help the community move to this messenger.

On communism:

anontako: Are you a communist?

Vitalik: No. And I'm also not a capitalist. Both are 20th century ideologies.

(And they are words that have been stretched and abused to the point of meaninglessness: remember, in the 1990s, Microsoft called Linux "communist": https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/ )

I support freedom, global equality of opportunity, kindness and cooperation, human welfare and progress.

These are timeless principles. The question is how to use the tools we have available to achieve these values in the context of the 21st century. I've written at length about the kinds of mechanisms I personally support, but I definitely do not think that I am the only source of good ideas, I think figuring out the best approach is a shared project of both thinking and also increasingly real world experimentation.

Generally speaking, reading this one made me pretty optimistic about the EF priorities.

Found the communist vs capitalist answer extremely insightful and it instantly changed my perspective. One of those things you see and can never unsee.

+1, sometimes I think that Vitalik is just a character from Iain Banks' Culture series