According to ChainCatcher, Oman has officially launched a national-level Bitcoin mining pool and has required all licensed cryptocurrency miners operating within the country to connect to this unified pool. The disclosed information states that the project is led by Oman’s Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, with an initial planned hashrate target of approximately 10 EH/s.
A Bitcoin mining pool is infrastructure through which miners combine computing power to participate in block production on the Bitcoin network. For an individual miner, joining a pool means its hashrate is counted and coordinated within a shared operating system. In Oman’s newly announced arrangement, the access requirement applies specifically to all licensed cryptocurrency miners in the country, and their operations must run through the national unified mining pool.
The key facts released so far are limited and specific: Oman’s national Bitcoin mining pool has formally gone live; licensed domestic cryptocurrency miners are required to connect to it; and the pool’s initial target scale is around 10 EH/s. The source item did not provide further details on later expansion plans, participating miner names, or detailed operating rules.