Dread is a Reddit -like dark web discussion forum featuring news and discussions around darknet markets. The site’s administrator goes by the alias of ‘HugBunter’. It is a popular community hub, succeeding [3] the seized DeepDotWeb [4] as a news site for discussion around market law enforcement activity and scams. It featured 12, registered users within three months of being launched, and 14, users by June In Septemberroughly after one week of maintenance downtime, HugBunter’s dead man’s switch was activated. In May a moderator of Wall Street Market posted its hidden IP address to Dread, potentially leading to its exit scam and seizure shortly. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved 26 October