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 firms within the cryptocurrency sector.” Nevertheless, RSM advised CoinDesk that it’ll now not audit publicly traded digital asset mining firms, however that it isn’t dropping the entire crypto sector. The auditor will nonetheless supply its companies to privately held crypto-related companies, a spokesperson stated.