Oman Launches Mandatory National Bitcoin Mining Pool in State-Backed Push for Regulatory Control

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Oman Launches Mandatory National Bitcoin Mining Pool in State-Backed Push for Regulatory Control

Oman has taken one of the most direct steps by any government to bring bitcoin mining under formal state oversight, launching a mandatory national mining pool that licensed operators across the sultanate are required to join.

The pool, Omanhash.com, was launched by Oman’s Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology and will run in cooperation with Frontier Technologies LLC, an Omani blockchain and Web3 company. 

Enegix Global, a vertically integrated digital energy and infrastructure company, built the technology platform and liquidity infrastructure behind it. The company called it the official national cryptocurrency mining pool of the Sultanate of Oman.

Under the approved regulatory framework, Omanhash.om is the sole official and mandatory mining pool for all licensed cryptocurrency mining companies in the country. The pool is expected to consolidate roughly 10 exahashes per second of computing power in its initial phase — a measure of the total computational work directed at securing the Bitcoin network and, by extension, minting new coins.

That hashrate matters for Bitcoin in a direct way. The more concentrated and regulated that hashrate becomes within a national framework, the greater the government’s visibility into mining revenue, energy consumption, and the flow of newly minted bitcoin. It seems the country is not trying to ban or restrict the activity — it is pulling it into a structured, trackable system.

The country has been one of the most active jurisdictions in the Middle East for industrial-scale mining investment since 2022, when the ministry launched a $370 million hydro-cooled mining facility in Salalah. 

Total investments in mining and data center infrastructure in the Salalah Free Zone have since surpassed $700 million, including two major facilities built in 2022 and 2023. Alps Blockchain, an Italian firm, brought a 150 MW facility in Salalah to full operation in mid-2025. Oman’s Omanhash.om reflects the government’s next phase: pulling that accumulation of capacity into a regulated, transparent national architecture.

For Enegix, the mandate is its second sovereign-pool contract. The company built and operates btcpool.kz in Kazakhstan, where a 2023 digital assets law requires licensed miners to operate through government-accredited pools and report revenue to tax authorities through an automated system. 

The addition of Omanhash.om brings Enegix’s combined pool operations to about 25 EH/s across three pools.

“This is our second sovereign mandate, and it validates the model we have been building since Kazakhstan,” said Olzhas Amirov, chief business development officer of Enegix Global in a company press release, noting that licensing frameworks help miners operate within the law, avoid punitive taxation, and communicate with regulators.

Oman’s approach stands as a contrast to jurisdictions that have pushed back against mining with outright bans or heavy tax burdens. Instead, the sultanate has embedded mining within a broader economic diversification strategy — and is now adding a layer of centralized control that keeps bitcoin production inside the country’s regulatory reach. 

Enegix said its next target is to grow its combined pool hashrate to 30 EH/s.

This post Oman Launches Mandatory National Bitcoin Mining Pool in State-Backed Push for Regulatory Control first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.