The Sultanate of Oman has launched OmanHash.om, a mandatory national Bitcoin mining pool for every licensed miner in the country. The platform targets 10 exahashes per second, roughly 1% of global hashrate. It is run by Enegix Global under the supervision of the Omani Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Key Takeaways
- OmanHash.om becomes the only authorized pool for licensed Bitcoin miners in the sultanate
- Targets 10 EH/s initially, about 1% of total Bitcoin hashrate
- Enegix Global already runs Kazakhstan’s sovereign pool, second state mandate
A mandatory and exclusive national pool
The Omani decree leaves no room for interpretation. Every licensed Bitcoin miner in the country must now route hashrate through OmanHash.om, the only official pool recognized by the state. Foreign pools are no longer allowed for this category of operators, whether Antpool, F2Pool, ViaBTC or Foundry USA.
Oversight sits with the Omani Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT). That tutelage reflects a clear political choice: Bitcoin mining is treated as strategic infrastructure, on par with telecoms or ports. The Omani state no longer just hosts the industry, it now takes operational command of it.
The capacity target for OmanHash.om is set at 10 exahashes per second in the initial phase. Compared to current global hashrate around 900 EH/s, this represents roughly 1% of Bitcoin’s total network power. A national pool at that size becomes mechanically visible in block finding, without yet threatening protocol decentralization in the short term.
For miners based on Omani soil, the math is pre-written. Either they accept integration with the national pool and keep their operating license, or they leave. For many, leaving is not an option: as we covered in our analysis on Bitcoin miners running below production cost, margins in the sector are already thin and relocating means burning sunk CAPEX.
Enegix Global and the Kazakh precedent
Choosing Enegix Global as the technical operator is no accident. The company already built and runs btcpool.kz, Kazakhstan’s sovereign pool. It is today the only operator in the world to have built and held multiple sovereign-level Bitcoin mining pools. The Omani mandate is the second one in the series.
The Kazakhstan model served as the reference for Muscat. It combines a standard pool platform, a liquidity layer for reward distribution, and direct integration with the regulator. That last point changes everything: authorities see in real time who mines, how much, and with which equipment. Tax and compliance no longer rely on self-reporting, they flow from the pool’s data.
The operation is run locally with Frontier Technologies, an Omani blockchain firm. Frontech belongs to ITHCA Group, the technology investment arm of the sovereign wealth fund Oman Investment Authority. The cap table is therefore fully aligned with the Omani state, from technical operator to regulator.
For Enegix, the Omani mandate opens a potential third market through demonstration effect. Other Gulf and Central Asia countries are watching the rollout. A sovereign pool offers the state total visibility on mining flows and revenue, without having to ban the activity or let an informal sector grow. That is a compromise that sells well to cautious regulators.
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An economic strategy beyond mining
Oman has been investing in Bitcoin mining since 2022. The sultanate has already committed more than $700 million in large-scale facilities, mostly in the Salalah free zone. The creation of OmanHash.om locks in the last missing brick: operational control over the hashrate produced.
The Omani strategy does not stop at mining. The same energy and digital infrastructure feeds datacenters dedicated to artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC). The country bets on a progressive shift: mining profitability funds the datacenters, which then capture AI demand driven by the Gulf region.
For foreign miners, the commercial pitch from the authorities is explicit. According to Enegix Global’s commercial director, OmanHash.om gives operators clear authorization frameworks, protection from erratic taxation, and direct communication with the regulator. Three rare elements in a sector where shifts in political doctrine can destroy hardware investment in a few months.
In the short term, the impact on the Bitcoin market is neutral. Omani hashrate already existed, it was simply spread across international pools. It now concentrates on a single national pool, but stays active. Over the medium term, the political question weighs more: how many other Gulf or Central Asia states will copy the Omani model? If three or four follow, the Bitcoin pool map will be redrawn around sovereign operators, and decentralization will lose ground.
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