This enables stakeholders to set a minimum amount of SNT that a Status stakeholder must deposit in order for someone outside of their network to contact him directly. If the recipient replies the deposit is forfeited to the recipient.
**SNT Utility**
SNT is deposited, and transferred from stakeholders to recipients upon receiving a reply from the recipient.
Example use-cases
- Stakeholder A, a professional, would like to reach out to a high profile figure in the same industry, but would otherwise have no means of receiving a response.
- Stakeholder B, an artist and celebrity wishes to spend some time chatting with fans, and also desires a means of monetizing their fan base.
- Stakeholder C, a freelancer, provides photography tutorials, and has a means of generating revenue.
### Product Description
Any Status user can enable Tribute to Talk and set a minimum required deposit for other users to stake in order to send them a message. Users requiring a tribute can whitelist their full contact list, or specific contacts.
If User A requires a minimum 200 SNT deposit, User B will not be able to open a new chat with User A until they deposit at least 200 SNT. Once deposited, User B can send their message.
If User A responds to User B’s message, the deposit is transferred to User A, and a conversation is opened.
If User A does not respond or User B changes their mind, User B can cancel or withdraw the request. The request will also time out automatically if User A does not respond in some number of days. In any case where User A does not respond, the deposit is returned to User B.
If User A rejects User B’s request, User B’s deposit is returned. User B will have to wait some amount of time before they are able to send a new request to User A.
In the future, User A might have the option to respond to User B but waive the deposit. User B might have the option to make a tribute to User A without requiring a response.
### Requirements & Dependencies
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Any user can set up Tribute to Talk and require a deposit minimum to be contacted. Other users can put down a deposit to message them. New requests can be responded to, rejected or withdrawn. The deposit is transferred when a recipient responds, and sent back if they reject or the requester withdraws.
## Success Metrics
Initial emphasis is on TtT working as expected and producing no bugs for critical events.
- Message requests are delivered 100% reliably from requester to recipient.
- Message responses by recipients are successfully recognized in all instances, both accepted and rejected.
- Transfer or return of deposit to either recipient or requester is successful.
## Supporting Role Communication
TBD
## Copyright
Copyright and related rights waived via [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
