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{Dark money has also been flowing into Russia through a dark web marketplace called Hydra, which is powered by cryptocurrency, and enjoyed more than $1 billion in sales in 2020, according to Chainalysis. According to Bloomberg and the New York Times, Federation Tower, a complex in the heart of Moscow, is home to many cryptocurrency businesses under suspicion of facilitating extensive money laundering, including accepting illicit cryptocurrency funds obtained through scams, darknet markets, and ransomware. The data suggests that rather than managing numerous illicit havens, cybercriminals make use of a small group of purpose-built centralized exchanges for sending and receiving illicit cryptocurrency. Since charting taxable income is based upon what a recipient reports to the revenue service, it becomes extremely difficult to account for transactions made using cryptocurrencies, a mode of exchange that is complex and difficult to track. In February 2023, the SEC ruled that cryptocurrency exchange Kraken’s estimated $42 billion in staked assets globally operated as an illegal securities seller.}