My name is Craig Grant, since quitting my last job in 1999, I earned millions online and went back to $0 on 3 separate occasions many years apart.

The first millions came from email newsletter marketing in 2000, then back to $0 by 2004. I documented my life until 2004 on wordpress. I started building “A Eye Villas” in Jamaica from 2003 until 2008, then moved back to Florida after the 2008 economic crash.

The second millions came from crypto marketing in 2017, and I lost everything by 2019. The third millions happened when crypto exploded during covid 2021. I moved back to Jamaica and used the crypto to finish building “A Eye Villas”, and now comfortable at $0 again.

In late 1999 I quit a job delivering pizza, because I was earning over $2,000 a week with X.com, which became PayPal. I was there when the site launched and promoted it by listing at the top of my high traffic free stuff website for three months, then they stopped the promotion after it reached a certain level of success. In my view, no one else had that kind of marketing reach at the time. Without X.com, there is no PayPal success story, and without that there is no Elon Musk as we know him, no SpaceX, and a different world.

In early 2000, after the PayPal success, I discovered it was highly effective to send an email to promote my free stuff web site, and started collecting emails for marketing. A list that grew to over 6 million subscribers by 2001. I launched tshirtnews.com to build that list by giving away free t-shirts to users who successfully referred 3 friends to join n the email list, shipping out hundreds of t-shirts per week. The email marketing business model was aggressively perused by others, and fell apart by 2003 when “spam” became a thing.

Something similar happened with ads. Before Google AdSense, I was promoting and earning from an ad distribution company. Google later bought the company and turned it into AdSense. I was earning on the internet from the thing that became AdSense, and before Google was widely known.

In 2003. As my financial status was rapidly degrading. My girlfriend Yuliana suggested we move to Jamaica, so we moved to Jamaica with my wife from Bulgaria, and my girlfriend Yuliana, they each had a newborn baby boy, my 2 sons born 1 month apart. We started a website called “Within 48 Hours” documenting our daily lives with photos and videos, supported by Google Absence and PayPal monthly subscriptions from our fans. This was an online “reality show” before that concept later came to MTV, by publishing daily online videos before YouTube existed. In late 2003, I started construction on A Eye Villas in the Cockpit country mountains where I grew up. We moved into A Eye Villa in 2004, and the construction continued at a slow pace until 2008.

My life from 2005 to 2008 mostly entailed me becoming a spiritual being, guided by my son ONE Love Grant.

I experienced him as my future self who came back to rescue me from materialism, it was an amazing time.

Yuliana traveled the world as an International model, this was her dream life being realized.

In 2005, an affiliate marketer from my email marketing days contacted me to ask if I still had an email list, because he has an amazing offer to promote. I did happen to have a small email list that I slowly built while in Jamaica. I only sent a message 3 times weekly to keep it under the radar of spam filters, and it worked great. I accepted his offer and advised him it would only convert well the first few times. He said “that’s all you will need”, and he was right. The offer paid $50 for every lead that filled out a simple form with name, address, and checked a box for being interested in a guaranteed mortgage backed loan approval. I earned $34,000 the first time and about $5000 the second time I sent it, no more after that.

By 2007, I was a full spiritual being. I started promoting a daily mantra “money is done”, to signal the end of materialism in the world. Everyone in my community and thousands of subscribers on my YouTube channel called me GOD, to the extent that my mailing address used the name GOD, instead of Craig Grant, and I received gifts from all across the world. Then the 2008 market crash happened, and there was a rough patch where many in my community blamed me for it, but by 2009, everyone figured out a way to live joyfully while being broke.

In the 2008 crash I was living in Jamaica without electricity by choice. I had money in the bank but didn’t want the attention that spending it would bring, so I lived like everyone else, broke, but joyful. My friends and I ran around in the mountains having a great time while people who needed money were struggling. I started using electricity and the Internet again in 2009. My family in Florida started expressing concern, as I was too comfortable in the mountains. In 2009 while in Jamaica I saw Bitcoin being accepted as donations on a BitTorrent site, and went to investigate what this new tech was all about.

My 7 year old son “ONE” and girlfriend Yuliana moved from Jamaica to Florida in 2008 after the crash, and were having a hard time financially. They wanted me to come help. They also thought I was crazy: everyone else was worried about money, and I was running around happy. My mother wanted to “save” me by bringing me to America. I didn’t want to leave Jamaica, but I was brought over to the USA in 2009.

I arrived as a spiritual being and told everyone I was not dealing with money. I would live the same way I had in Jamaica. We stayed at my mother’s house with my girlfriend and my son ONE. My girlfriend was working part time jobs for money, and I tried rebuilding my Internet marketing, but the slow macro economy was not cooperating. Yuliana got pregnant and I said that was perfect, as the youngest is the most powerful. This child would be the most powerful being on earth, and bring success. We decided to keep the baby. My mother thought we were crazy. No one was listening to her.

Yuliana knew someone doing well with bounce houses, so we started a business. We had $10,000 on a credit card from my mother, and bought two bounce houses. At the same time my mother said she would give us $30,000 as a down payment on a house, this was my money she was holding for me. I was against a mortgage. I already had a house in Jamaica with no mortgage. I felt since I was brought to Florida, I deserved free shelter.

I told my mother that if it wasn’t her house, it would be some other house, she was terrified that it would be her house. Soon after, she found us a free place to stay, a pink house on Banks Road that belonged to a friend of hers, and was empty because of a foreclosure situation. We lived there for months. To me, that confirmed that what I say is what happens, even in the USA.

While living at the pink house for 6 months trying to buy a house, we kept losing houses to other buyers. We looked at places around $140,000 or more so we could put $30,000 down payment, but every deal fell through and the available houses got worse. I made a video in a park saying we would get a house and I would not pay a mortgage. Across the field a man in a red shirt appeared; I said “oh look it’s Satan” and I took that as negative confirmation of my positive flow.

About a week later Yuliana found a listing on a new website Auction.com, bids starting at $9,000. There was no agent, just an address, and open doors for us to go see the house inside and out. We looked, placed a bid, and got the house for $30,000, the exact amount we had been given to put down. We faxed the paperwork and received the keys, just like magic. It was a nice two bedroom, two bathroom house with a kitchen, a backyard full of pine trees, and the occasional wild deer.

My mother was stunned. She still thought I was crazy and wanted us to pay her $500 a month on the money she had given us, money I considered mine. She pushed it because of Yuliana is not in our bloodline. I said Yuliana would pay the $500 for the first years and I would pay after that. I had no intention of doing it. For the first three years or so, Yuliana paid it from the bounce house business.

I didn’t control my father’s name or the timing or location of Sun’s birth. While Yuliana was in labor we got our first bounce house booking, from a Jamaican church. I said he was bringing his own money into the world. He grew up with both parents at home, and delivered fun on the weekends, life through his eyes is simply beautiful.

When the business started, I wanted none of the money. As a spiritual being I refused dealing with money or driving. Each bounce house, in my view, was a spaceship that mined the joy of kids. We rolled them up in a spiral, stored them in our garage, and that spiral of joy powered the house we slept in, a spaceship flying us to higher levels of life. On weekends we took them out, kids jumped, and once a year those kids had that much fun, then we rolled the joy back up and brought it home. Yuliana kept the money.

I earned online from YouTube videos about the bounce houses. I didn’t talk in the videos, so having no language barrier served a global audience. I showed myself and Yuliana setting up before the party, and then cleaning, and rolling them up after the rentals were done. No kids and no parties were shown, and we had no team. Just Yuliana and I doing physical labor, on the idea that energy could be collected by whoever was watching. The videos got millions of views, and thousands of dollars in YouTube ad revenue, I would later use for cryptocurrency.

Our 30K magic house and bounce house business was located in Palm Bay, Florida, a town that I concluded would not exist if it was not for NASA, and I was an alien living a town they created to host beings like me. The town is primarily known for aerospace, defense, and semiconductor tech jobs, driven by its location on Florida’s Space Coast. Top tech job Categories in Palm Bay are software & systems engineers, designing, integrating, and maintaining embedded command and control software, simulation systems, and secure networking architectures. The narrative of me being an alien is for my entertainment, and enables me to wake up every day with a smile.

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My YouTube audience is the entire universe. My biggest fans are the stars. Each star is either one being or a collective of many beings watching me work. The reason they watch is because I delivered the bounce houses to mine joy. The beings from the stars, let’s call them aliens, could garner energy from watching me do the physical labor. By them using me as a tool for energy, I can get millions of views not only from Earth, but from the whole universe.

I have the same idea for my videos farming in Jamaica. I’ve been making these videos for three years now, and I’m not getting millions of views, average has been less than 30. I do remember with the bounce house videos, it took about a year before I started seeing thousands of views, and then millions. I was willing to wait a couple of years for the farming videos to produce results. But it’s actually been three years now.

After a couple of years, I pretty much gave up on the narrative. Now I’m seeing something different. Now I’m getting 200 or more views on the farming videos with no talking. The tables have turned, my universal audience has returned. This is good because it’s easier to make videos of myself working than talking like a spiritual mad man. The bounce houses? Yes, I enjoyed it. But farming energy is a thousand times more potent. And of course, the joy I’m mining is when someone eats the food I produce.

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In 2011, after 2 years living at our magic house in Palm Bay. I was visited by the FBI.

I was gardening in the back yard, then I walked to the front yard with a long machete in my hand. I saw two men exiting a vehicle in our driveway. They looked like government agents, and one of them said “could you put that down”. I smiled as I felt like they were afraid of seeing me with it. They introduced themselves as FBI agents and I invited them inside to talk, they sat with Yuliana and I around our dining table.

One played bad cop and the other played good cop, naturally I ignored the bad cop, while extracting information from the good cop. They said they received complaints about my YouTube videos. I explained that my videos are harmless, I only talk spiritual talk to manifest or “deal with” things in my life, and showed my family doing bounce house work. The bad cop complained about the spiritual content, while the good cop said “don’t worry about anything”.

Eventually the good cop told me the complaint came from someone close to me, not for the Internet. this piece of information was all I needed to hear, to encourage me to proceed with everything I was doing, and make even more videos. After they left, I accepted that from that point on they had me on file, and would keep watching me.

In 2014, Yuliana commenced paying her share of $15,000 of the $30,000 we paid auction.com for the house, and it was my turn to pay $500 per month. I applied myself with a goal of earning the entire $15,000 online, and in three weeks I earned $40,000. I bought cheap Facebook traffic and sent it to my web site pages with Google AdSense. AdSense paid me; Facebook was collecting $100 a day for ads against me earning $1,000 or more in AdSense. Then Facebook shut me down. On the phone, the person said I was making too much money and had to go. That pushed me toward crypto. I had known about Bitcoin when it was $3, but hadn’t needed it. It was $400 in 2015 when I started buying Bitcoin and making videos about it. I learned about smart contracts before the launch of Ethereum, and started buy ETH at 90 cents. Finance and marketing kept repeating in my life as a spiral.

In 2017, after seven years of bounce house work, I developed sciatica and spent three months in bed. Yuliana hired two employees to run the business. I had a laptop in bed and watched crypto. One day a token called BCC appeared in the number seven spot on Coinmarketcap. It was Bitconnect. I found videos of a room full of Indian presenters talking about it, and a website better put together than anything else in crypto at the time, including their own exchange.

I was the first person in the United States making videos about it, and it grew fast because crypto was already moving. Within a couple of months I had access to a lot of money and could get out of bed. Doctors had talked about surgery that might not work. A YouTube comment told me the best remedy is to stop eating meat. I changed my diet and the sciatica cleared.

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For years I showed where I lived on YouTube, so people knew I had crypto and knew the address. We had to move somewhere more secure. Because the house was mortgage free and we had our own cash business, we had no rental history. We were willing to pay up front, but in the meantime we used Airbnbs and hotels while looking for a permanent place. I kept making videos. Bitconnect was going well for the people in it, while there was an overwhelming amount of negativity from holders of cryptos outside of Bitconnect, crypto being very competitive for attention.

At the height of our BCC success, we were unable to find a place to settle down. Yuliana kept searching, but with no rental or income history, it was almost impossible to find a nice secure place. When we offered to pay a whole year rent up front, the renters declined because crypto was the source of funds. We rented a hotel suite in a newly built hotel in Downtown Miami, called Brickell City Center (BCC), attached to it’s own mall featuring high end restaurants and luxury brand name stores. Yuliana paid $15,000 per month for her 3 bedroom suite with our 2 sons. I rented a hotel room on the top floor of the BCC hotel, and sometimes Miami beach hotels, for over $300 per night. This was most secure as all the attention was on me.

When we paid the rent with our debit card, the charge came from a company name “BCC” (short for Brickell City Center), and the company address was based in Hong Kong, China. We recognized this as a reflection of earning money with the Bitconnect BCC token, and Bitconnect was launched in Asia. Vietnamese and Indian promoters were already millionaires before I saw it on Coinmarketcap and started promoting it in the USA.

While unable to find a place and spending over $30,000 a month on Miami hotel rent. I attempted to move back to Jamaica and resume building A Eye Villas. My family and fellow BCC promoters disagreed with this move. While I was in Jamaica making preparations to start construction, a hurricane hit downtown Miami, and the destruction caused Yuliana and my 2 sons to flee Miami to Jamaica. While they were in Jamaica for several weeks. I realized how expensive it was for all four of us to maintain the same Florida lifestyle in Jamaica, and decided to move back to Florida, in the BCC hotel.

I ignored the outside Bitconnect negativity until the SEC stepped in and wanted to know who was running it. In Bitconnect everyone took orders from an entity called “system”, not “the system”, just one word “system” it dictated what happened and presented itself as a computer. I called that AI, which fit things I had already been saying. No human stepped up to defend Bitconnect from the SEC. The BCC token was decentralized, but the platform being centralized is why it collapsed.

The FBI started going after Bitconnect promoters. I told my fellow BCC promoters the FBI has been watching me since 2011, and then I contacted the FBI to say I had done nothing wrong. I offered to assist with their investigation. After some months building a solid relationship with them, they told me the SEC wanted to talk to me but advised against it, the FBI has more rules; the SEC, in their description, operates more like gangsters. I talked anyway, because refusing would look like fear, and I hadn’t done anything wrong. I worked with the FBI and SEC for about three years, and I noticed over those years that the more they investigated is the more they took my AI narrative seriously.

We left Miami a few days after Bitconnect collapsed, to Central Florida, because Yuliana found a golf community called Reunion Estates, with very nice vacation homes we could rent for $1500 to $2000 per week. We moved to a different home every two weeks, because the FBI kept saying we were not safe, and there were dark web hits out for my life. During this turbulent time, my mother passed away, and I did not go to her funeral based on the FBI saying it was not safe. During this time I assisted developers to promote the first smart contract with an embed DEX, inspired by Bitconnect. A game called Proof Of Weak Hands, before the launch of Uniswap.

After the Bitconnect collapse in 2018, The FBI came to visit me for an interview in Reunion Estates, and I explained our situation was bleak as we were running out of money and could not find a place to live in Celebration, where we wanted our son ONE to go to high school, and we could relaunch our Bounce House Business. A week after that conversation, Yuliana found a renter who was willing to rent a very nice house to us with no paperwork. The community was called “Reflections”, and the renter lived in China.

Now that we were living in Reflectrions, our son ONE is able to attend “Celebration High School”, a perfect reflection of my reverence for the word joy. It’s located in the community of Celebration, Florida, which was originally developed by the Walt Disney Company in the 1990s. The first day of school we checked Google maps for directions to drop him at school, and that’s when we noticed for the first time, a church named ILLUMINATI directly across the street from the school. We ran the Bounce House Business successfully for 3 more years.

Eventually the SEC talked about suing me for $2 million. I had no money and needed time to hire a lawyer. I made some videos stating that the older generations were blocking crypto progress and should be removed from power. A few weeks later COVID arrived. I took that as the time I needed, at least a couple of years, while the government was occupied with other things.

During Covid our bounce house business customers doubled, and we started renting out units during the weekdays because kids were home. We would often be on the I-95 seven lane highway in Central Florida, with no other cars on the road. From my point of view, the world stood still for us to move forward.

Before covid, Richard Heart appeared with Hex, which I saw as a copy of Bitconnect with a person willing to defend it, the exact thing I had told the SEC Bitconnect needed. I inherited $90,000 from my mothers passing. I put $30,000 into the bounce house business, $30,000 into Hex, and $30,000 to Yuliana and my sons. The Hex position grew. I moved back to Jamaica in 2021 and finished construction of A Eye Villas, which I started building in 2003.

The reason for the long story is the pattern: I was there at the beginning of PayPal, the dawn of email marketing, a reality show before MTV’s reality show, with videos online before YouTube. There when Bitcoin formed. There for the launch of Ethereum, and a DEX before Uniswap. There in bed after seven years of labor when I saw Bitconnect, a system I believe was run by AI. Then the launch of HEX, that did a 10,000x.

In 2012, living a comfortable life in our magic house and running a successful bounce house business, My YouTube fans suggested I published a book with my spiritual philosophy, so I did. It’s on Amazon titled “ILLUMINATI, I luminate I, I shine my light, it’s not a group thing”. At the time there was an overwhelming amount of fear on the Internet surrounding the word ILLUMINATI, and even Hollywood movies depicting that fear. My book was the positive, self centered, fearless version of that word. Many copies were sold, mostly to my YouTube fans.

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The ILLUMINATI may be out of print, but a later version of the same philosophy, NOW = 01 : Binary code holographic physical experience is available on Amazon.