[#CChainParams-MessageStart]
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Returns the network magic bytes that prefix every P2P message.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<kernel/chainparams.h>`

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xref:MessageStartChars.adoc[MessageStartChars] const&
MessageStart() const;
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== Return Value

The message‐start byte sequence.


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