Oman mandates national bitcoin mining pool, requiring all licensed miners to route hashrate through OmanHash

Oman's Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology has launched a state-backed bitcoin mining pool called OmanHash.om and mandated that every licensed miner in the country must use it, making it the sole pool for licensed operators. The requirement centralizes mining operations under regulatory oversight to enforce compliance, monitoring and revenue controls while formalizing local crypto adoption. The move is likely to boost institutionalization and regulated adoption in Oman but increases centralization and security oversight risks for the mining ecosystem.