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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: cudjex on February 02, 2014, 06:26:08 PM



Title: What does "pchMessage" mean ?
Post by: cudjex on February 02, 2014, 06:26:08 PM
Hey

I'm trying to understand some things about coins.

When I look to Saturncoin's main.cpp (https://github.com/saturncoinnet/Saturncoin/blob/master/src/main.cpp#L2434), pchMessage value is :a
Code:
unsigned char pchMessageStart[4] = { 0xfa, 0xb4, 0xad, 0xcb }; 
In Litecoin's main.cpp (https://github.com/saturncoinnet/Saturncoin/blob/master/src/main.cpp#L2434) :
Code:
unsigned char pchMessageStart[4] = { 0xfb, 0xc0, 0xb6, 0xdb };
In Dogecoin (https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/blob/master-1.5/src/main.cpp#L3141) :
Code:
unsigned char pchMessageStart[4] = { 0xc0, 0xc0, 0xc0, 0xc0 };

So what is this and how it works ?