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Unlike Bitcoin this ledger is not open to the public, it only exists on the nodes containing group members.
And everything in the ledger is encrypted except the timestamp. So without a decryption key, you could tell when messages were sent but not who sent them.
Ah, gotcha, I may not have read carefully enough. I do see how an auditable decentralized trail of messages and any edits made might be useful for certain very sensitive communications then.