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I'm adsmith on Keybase, and have a proven github.com association with this account (NotTheEconomist). For some reason I'm getting the following results from the console

C:\Users\adsmith>keybase id adsmith
ok public key fingerprint: A492 B2D4 D8F2 31CF 3351 A152 8C09 4DBA 1D8C ADFC
ok "NotTheEconomist" on github: https://gist.github.com/99c1f2366510e583f774
ok "rowenlemmings" on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KeybaseProofs/comments/32l43w/my_keybase_proof_redditrowenlemmings/
ok admin of www.nottheeconomist.com via HTTP: http://www.nottheeconomist.com/.well-known/keybase.txt

C:\Users\adsmith>keybase id web://www.nottheeconomist.com
ok public key fingerprint: A492 B2D4 D8F2 31CF 3351 A152 8C09 4DBA 1D8C ADFC
ok "NotTheEconomist" on github: https://gist.github.com/99c1f2366510e583f774
ok "rowenlemmings" on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KeybaseProofs/comments/32l43w/my_keybase_proof_redditrowenlemmings/
ok admin of www.nottheeconomist.com via HTTP: http://www.nottheeconomist.com/.well-known/keybase.txt

C:\Users\adsmith>keybase id reddit://rowenlemmings
ok public key fingerprint: A492 B2D4 D8F2 31CF 3351 A152 8C09 4DBA 1D8C ADFC
ok "NotTheEconomist" on github: https://gist.github.com/99c1f2366510e583f774
ok "rowenlemmings" on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KeybaseProofs/comments/32l43w/my_keybase_proof_redditrowenlemmings/
ok admin of www.nottheeconomist.com via HTTP: http://www.nottheeconomist.com/.well-known/keybase.txt

C:\Users\adsmith>keybase id github://NotTheEconomist
error: No user found for 'github://NotTheEconomist'

C:\Users\adsmith>keybase id github://nottheeconomist
error: No user found for 'github://nottheeconomist'

I can keybase id other people from their github profile

C:\Users\adsmith>keybase id github://maxtaco
ok public key fingerprint: 8EFB E2E4 DD56 B352 7363 4E8F 6052 B2AD 31A6 631C
ok "maxtaco" on twitter: https://twitter.com/maxtaco/status/433688676975927296
ok "maxtaco" on github: https://gist.github.com/8847250
ok "maxtaco" on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KeybaseProofs/comments/2clf9c/my_keybase_proof_redditmaxtaco_keybasemax/
ok "maxtaco" on coinbase: https://coinbase.com/maxtaco/public-key
ok "maxtaco" on hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maxtaco
ok admin of keybase.io via HTTPS: https://keybase.io/.well-known/keybase.txt
ok admin of oneshallpass.com via HTTPS: https://oneshallpass.com/.well-known/keybase.txt
ok admin of the DNS zone for oneshallpass.com
ok admin of the DNS zone for maxk.org
ok admin of the DNS zone for nutflex.com
$ bitcoin 1BYzrCvfbn81dfiksmD1Bdgt8pgLi1SD7Z

So it seems to be an issue possibly with my CamelCase username. Any thoughts?

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Start by reproducing keybase id github://NotTheEconomist and compare it with the successful github://maxtaco lookup shown in the issue. Trace the GitHub identity lookup entry point and verify that the CamelCase account resolves successfully without breaking the existing proof checks.

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