**The phone-number link works like this:**
Peter (as DocHex / Peter Gray) maintains a public page where people can pay him for consulting or his time. On that page he has **verified a phone number that ends in the digits “44”**.
Independent checks of the two X accounts show that **the same phone number ending in “44” is associated with both**:
- The DocHex account, and
- The switck account.
Because the last two digits of a phone number function roughly like a random two-digit code (00–99), the chance that two unrelated people would share the exact same final two digits is about **1 in 100**.
This is not a full phone-number match published in the clear; it is a shared partial fingerprint (the verified ending digits) that appears on both accounts. When stacked with the much stronger evidence that Peter’s GPG key signed dozens of switck commits (including the critical libngu RNG commit), the phone overlap becomes useful corroboration rather than the primary proof.
In short: the same person who publicly verified a number ending in 44 under the Peter/DocHex identity also has that same ending digit sequence tied to the switck X account.
