How's that gonna look in a court of law?
any number of possible defenses are available....the one, which I'm sure none of you "Crypto-people" would accept is, this was an "oversight". Given everything else that was going on and all his other efforts, traveling, meeting, doing PR, training, etc . . . he didn't think about it after wallets were set aside for payouts to miners under the previous algos. He was called out in the middle of the first "Event" - a busy time, no doubt, then burned the coins, but apparently not enough of them to satisfy some people.
Technically, these coins didn't come from a "pre-mine" per se, did they? They were the result of coins left over from an algo-switch. Not exactly "lies", but I digress.
I won't get into everything that could be brought up to defend a claim for libel. Facts were presented, coins were burned and yet the libel of "scam artist", "fraud", "thief" still continued. The 7 million or so coins still out there.....maybe there are very good business reasons to use them for adoption promotion purposes. 5% for marketing isn't all that bad.
A jury will likely be satisfied that an issue was presented and dealt with accordingly. D9's claim for libel would come after all of that -- i.e. dragging CANN and D9 through the mud after the facts and the burning coins. It's the speculative conclusions drawn by DEVs of other projects that makes the case for libel.
In a "court of law" everything would come out - including the information and details on character of those crying "wolf". As an attorney defending D9, you would bet your ass they'd subpoena those members of NWGT (i.e. Lemonkoko, or whatever his name was) to discuss the not-so great experiences they've had dealing with CCN people (i.e. claims of outright fraud, theft, threats, releasing private information about their members' families and underage children -- violating their own privacy policies, the list goes on. . . )
In the end, rest assured that a jury in a libel case such as this would likely be filled by rednecks who know little to nothing about cryptos or this shit-slinging forum.
Again, I urge James and Tokyopotato to stop this nonsense for the good of CCN. If you wish to continue, fine, but please start using a different alias when representing CCN....please do something to fix the damage your actions have done to CCN's good name.