Oman Mandates State Pool for All Bitcoin Miners, Following Kazakhstan Model

Published by James Harris on June 18, 2026June 18, 2026

Oman has made every licensed bitcoin miner in the country route their operations through a single state-controlled pool, OmanHash.om, developed by Enegix Global and operated locally by Muscat-based Frontier Technologies LLC. This is not a voluntary industry initiative. Participation is mandatory under Oman’s new regulatory framework.

The sharper context here is the Kazakhstan precedent. Enegix built and runs btcpool.kz, launched in October 2023 after Kazakhstan passed a digital assets law requiring licensed miners to use government-accredited pools and report revenue directly to tax authorities. Oman is now the second country to adopt this sovereign pool model, and the pattern is worth reading carefully: both countries made significant infrastructure investments first, then introduced mandatory pooling as the regulatory layer that followed. Oman has directed more than $700 million into mining and data center projects in the Salalah Free Zone since 2022. The pool is the control mechanism that comes after the capital is already committed.

Oman currently accounts for roughly 3% of global bitcoin blockchain hashrate, approximately 30 EH/s according to Q2 2026 data from Hashrate Index. OmanHash.om’s initial target of 10 EH/s would consolidate a meaningful share of that under direct state visibility.

The model Oman and Kazakhstan are building is less about mining economics and more about fiscal legibility. Mandatory pools using an FPPS payout structure give governments a clean audit trail: every share submitted, every payout issued, every fee collected is visible to the operator, which in both cases has a formal relationship with national regulators. For miners, the pitch from Enegix is that legal clarity reduces tax risk. The unstated implication is that miners who want to operate in these jurisdictions no longer have the option of routing through anonymous or offshore pools. Other resource-rich states watching sovereign mining as a revenue strategy now have two working templates to reference.

Enegix says its combined hashrate across 21pool.io, btcpool.kz, and OmanHash.om reaches approximately 25 EH/s, with a stated target of 30 EH/s. Whether that target is reached depends on how quickly OmanHash.om scales from its initial 10 EH/s goal, and on whether Enegix secures a third sovereign mandate in a jurisdiction it has not yet named.