Oman’s state Bitcoin mining pool redraws map, points to adoption shift
Oman launched Omanhash.om on June 17, 2026, making it the second country with a mandatory state run Bitcoin mining pool. Kazakhstan was first with btcpool.kz. Oman still matters because it is treating mining as a regulated business, not a side project or a gray area. Licensed miners now have to use one state approved pool. My take: that is the real headline, not the launch itself. This is Bitcoin being handled less like legal tender theater and more like infrastructure with revenue, supervision, permits, and forms to file.
Omanhash.om is now the only legal pool for licensed mining companies in the Sultanate. Participation is required. No workaround. The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, or MTCIT, confirmed the pool’s status. Enegix Global, a digital energy and infrastructure company, provided the technology platform and liquidity setup. Frontier Technologies LLC, also known as Frontech, runs local operations from Muscat.
Enegix Global already built Kazakhstan’s btcpool.kz, so Oman is not its first government mining project. Enegix says btcpool.kz is the world’s first government accredited Bitcoin mining pool connected to state tax reporting systems. Most Bitcoin mining coverage treats state involvement as either hostile or bullish. That’s only half right. Olzhas Amirov, CBDO of Enegix Global, said, “This is our second sovereign mandate, and it validates the model we have been building since Kazakhstan. Clear licensing frameworks help miners operate legally, avoid excessive taxation, and establish transparent communication with authorities.”
Oman accounts for about 3% of global Bitcoin hashrate, or roughly 30 EH/s, according to Q2 2026 data from Hashrate Index. Omanhash.om is aiming for 10 EH/s in its first phase. Add Enegix’s 21pool.io and btcpool.kz, and the company’s operated hashrate is around 25 EH/s. Why does this matter? Because 10 EH/s is not a pilot-sized vanity number; it is a material slice of Oman’s reported 30 EH/s footprint. Yersaiyn Nurtoleuov, CPO of Enegix Global, said, “Our target is 30 EH/s, and we are actively building the infrastructure and partnerships to get there.”
Oman has drawn more than $700 million for mining and data center infrastructure in the Salalah Free Zone since around 2022. Two large facilities opened in 2022 and 2023, led by licensed operators Exahertz and Green Data City. The pitch is not abstract: location, power access, cooler climate zones, and a state plan that already points toward digital infrastructure. It also fits Oman Vision 2040, the country’s plan to rely less on oil by building digital infrastructure, AI, data centers, and blockchain projects. Bitcoin is still not legal tender under Central Bank guidance. Mining is allowed, but only through the regulated route. I’ll be honest: that split is more interesting than a clean pro Bitcoin slogan.
Omanhash.om puts licensed miners under one system instead of leaving them scattered across separate pools. Before this, licensed miners in Oman worked through a looser setup. The pool uses a Full Pay Per Share payout model, or FPPS, which pays miners for submitted shares even when the pool does not find a block. The pool operator takes a fee. Miners register, connect hardware, and mine through the platform. Regulators get the thing they usually want: hashrate, revenue flows, compliance data, and a single reporting surface. Is this overkill? For a 30 EH/s country, probably not. Plenty of Bitcoin people will dislike it anyway. Gauhar Kagira, Director of Enegix Mining Pool, called Oman “one of the first countries in the region to introduce a structured regulatory framework for miners.”
Kazakhstan’s btcpool.kz, launched in October 2023, gave Enegix the model now being used in Oman. That project gathered licensed hashrate into one pool and sent revenue reporting directly to tax authorities. Enegix now operates data centers with up to 250 MW of capacity in Kazakhstan and Canada. It is also building North American operations through Enegix Canada, or Corse Energy Corp., which combines gas extraction, on site power generation, Bitcoin mining, AI, and HPC colocation. This is where the story gets uncomfortable. State backed mining may make Bitcoin harder for governments to dismiss, but it also pulls more activity into official channels. Yes, that partly contradicts the usual decentralization pitch. Bear with me. Tax departments will like that. Decentralization people, probably less so.
What this means
Oman is doing more than allowing Bitcoin mining. It is organizing it. That is the change. The country is using mining as part of its digital infrastructure and economic diversification plans, not merely chasing cheap power margins. For investors, the signal is cleaner than another vague pro crypto speech: a government has created a licensed mining route and made it mandatory. We have seen this pattern before in regulated markets: boring plumbing often matters more than loud policy language. That may make the regulatory backdrop feel more predictable. It does not remove volatility. Bitcoin can still swing on liquidity, rates, ETF flows, and market nerves. But if more governments follow Oman and Kazakhstan, BTC could get a stronger institutional bid. Some market analysts have pointed to $70,000 as a possible retest area if state level acceptance keeps growing.
The next test is whether other energy rich countries copy the model. The Middle East and Central Asia are the obvious regions to watch. Enegix’s 30 EH/s target matters too, because missing it would make the model look weaker than the announcement suggests. Counter to the usual advice, the most important signal may not be a fresh mining facility announcement. It may be a dull mandate from a ministry, a tax reporting integration, or another required pool. New sovereign mining mandates, especially from larger economies, could give BTC another narrative push. My read: the next few quarters should show whether Oman is an exception or part of a longer move toward state managed Bitcoin mining.