Oman just made its Bitcoin miners join a mandatory state pool. Kazakhstan proved this model works in 2023.
Oman's government can now see every licensed miner's revenue, energy use, and fresh bitcoin without banning a single machine. The template has two countries behind it now.
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- →Oman launched Omanhash.com, a mandatory national Bitcoin mining pool built by Enegix Global that all licensed miners in the country must now use.
- →The pool gives Oman's government direct visibility into mining revenue, energy use, and newly minted bitcoin flows without banning or heavily taxing the industry.
- →Watch for a third sovereign mandatory mining pool mandate from a Gulf or Central Asian jurisdiction with existing licensed operations, within 12 months of Oman's launch.
- mining pool → A group of Bitcoin miners who combine their computing power to find blocks faster and share the rewards among participants.
- EH/s (exahash) → A unit measuring how much computing power is pointed at Bitcoin mining; 10 EH/s means ten quintillion calculations every second.
Oman launched Omanhash.com, a mandatory national Bitcoin mining pool, this week. Bitcoin Magazine puts the initial hashrate target at around 10 EH/s, and every licensed miner in the country must now use it.
That pool sits inside $700M+ of Salalah Free Zone investment built since 2022. Alps Blockchain brought a 150 MW facility there to full operation in mid-2025.
The builder is Enegix Global, and this is their second sovereign contract. The first was Kazakhstan's btcpool.kz, built under a 2023 law requiring licensed miners to use government-accredited pools and send revenue data to tax authorities automatically. Oman's mandate follows the same structure. Omanhash.com is described as "the sole official and mandatory mining pool for all licensed cryptocurrency mining companies in the country."
This is not a ban. Oman's government now sees mining revenue, energy use, and newly minted bitcoin flows directly. The country's licensed mining industry is officially inside the state's audit trail.
Bitcoin Magazine puts Enegix's combined hashrate at roughly 25 EH/s across three pools, targeting 30 EH/s.
If you're a miner watching this from another Gulf state, the template is clear. State oversight without a shutdown, trackable revenue, a third-party operator who takes the compliance burden.
Enegix's compliance design is the only thing keeping this model honest. A third sovereign that copies the structure without the revenue-reporting layer gets surveillance without accountability. And that's the catch.
A third sovereign mandatory mining pool mandate from a Gulf or Central Asian jurisdiction with existing licensed operations, within 12 months of Oman's launch.
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