Oman just became the latest petrostate to go all-in on Bitcoin mining, but with a twist that would make most crypto libertarians deeply uncomfortable. The sultanate has launched Omanhash.om, a mandatory national mining pool that requires every licensed miner in the country to route their hashrate through a single, government-supervised operation.
The pool went live on June 17 under the oversight of Oman’s Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT). It launched with an approximate hashrate of 10 exahashes per second, which would currently place it among the more significant pools globally.
How Omanhash actually works
The pool is managed locally by Frontier Technologies LLC, known as Frontech, with technological infrastructure and liquidity support provided by Enegix Global. Enegix previously helped Kazakhstan set up its own state-backed pool, btcpool.kz, making this something of a proven playbook for sovereign Bitcoin mining operations.
Enegix’s combined sovereign pool operations now total roughly 25 EH/s across multiple countries, with a stated target of scaling to 30 EH/s.
