Please show some respect, X.509 certificates are good for sites like Coinbase, Bitpay, Bitstamp deposit or similars.
They are not meant for the average user, they are meant for the average bussines.
Exactly my point. This feature was developed for businesses, on their request, not for the bitcoin community on its request.
It is very useful to click a Bitpay payment link and dont have to double check the address (Bitcoin Core already shows a green background), It is very useful to have a receipt of every payment (verificable cryptographically) if something goes wrong, Its very useful to specify a return address (satoshidice problems with hosted wallets...).
When I read that something is "very useful", the first question that comes to my mind is: how did you measure the very usefulness of it?
Obviously you didn't measure it - you are just giving us your subjective opinion.
As I said, had bitcoin users found these things "very useful" (and safe), they would have used them.
But they don't use the payment protocol and I seriously doubt that they ever will. Maybe a few, but definitely not most of us.
People are not stupid. You are not going to lure them into endangering their privacy by giving them a receipt of a payment.
If you dont like this features you can fork Bitcoin Core 0.7 and develop by yourself, I would like to download PiotrCore 0.9.1 to see its features.
Thank you for your permission. That's very generous.
In case you didn't notice, recently there has been major movement in alternative bitcoin solutions and alternative clients are already much further with new features, especially the ones that concern privacy. And mine is one of them, though it didn't have to come from any fork, I made it from scratch.
Considering that the Bitcoin Core goes against the current and the people's demand, it is rather inevitable that sooner or later it will only be used for mining.
Though only till the moment when miners finally realize that they have an alternative so they don't need to use software developed by a guy who proudly states in public that he doesn't care about mining.