Oman launches mandatory national Bitcoin mining pool targeting 10 EH/s

Oman has launched a mandatory national Bitcoin mining pool, requiring all licensed cryptocurrency mining companies in the sultanate to join OmanHash.om under a state-backed framework. The pool was launched by Oman’s Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, with Enegix Global providing the technology platform and liquidity backend and Frontier Technologies LLC managing local operations. Under Oman’s newly established regulatory framework, OmanHash.om is the country’s only approved mining pool for licensed operators and will use a Full Pay-Per-Share payout model, under which miners are paid for submitted shares whether or not the pool finds a block. The initial target is about 10 exahashes per second, while Oman controls nearly 3% of the global Bitcoin network hashrate, or about 30 EH/s, according to Q2 2026 data from Hashrate Index. The move extends Oman’s broader push into industrial-scale mining. More than $700 million has gone into mining and data center projects in the Salalah Free Zone since 2022, including two major facilities launched in 2022 and 2023. For Enegix, the Oman mandate is its second sovereign-pool contract after Kazakhstan, where a 2023 digital assets law requires licensed miners to use government-accredited pools and report revenue directly to tax authorities. Enegix said the addition of OmanHash.om raises its combined pool operations across 21pool.io, btcpool.kz and OmanHash.om to about 25 EH/s, with a next target of 30 EH/s.