Ionic additionally stated its auditor, RSM US, severed ties with the miner, citing a strategic determination by the accounting agency to “disengage from all audit engagements with corporations within the cryptocurrency sector.” Nevertheless, RSM instructed CoinDesk that it’ll now not audit publicly traded digital asset mining corporations, however that it’s not dropping the entire crypto sector. The auditor will nonetheless supply its companies to privately held crypto-related companies, a spokesperson stated.