Ionic additionally mentioned 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 advised CoinDesk that it’ll now not audit publicly traded digital asset mining corporations, however that it isn’t dropping the entire crypto sector. The auditor will nonetheless provide its providers to privately held crypto-related corporations, a spokesperson mentioned.