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

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;kernel&sol;chainparams&period;h&gt;`

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

The message&hyphen;start byte sequence&period;


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