Oman launches $350M crypto mining center: Report

The Sultanate of Oman has launched a caller cryptocurrency mining center, the 2nd mining installation to unfastened successful the state successful the past 10 months.

According to a section publication, the Oman Daily Observer, a information hosting and cryptocurrency mining center, was opened in the Salalah Free Zone, which is simply a peculiar economical portion successful the state with debased firm taxes. A section company, Exahertz, volition tally the halfway successful practice with Dubai-headquartered blockchain institution Moonwalk Systems.

The halfway reportedly outgo 135 cardinal Omani rials (roughly $350 million) to construct, and it volition usage the latest hardware from Bitmain Technologies, with plans to acceptable up 15,000 machines by October 2023. Currently, it operates successful a aviator authorities with 2,000 machines online, moving from 11 megawatts of consumed power, according to the report.

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The mining installation comes arsenic portion of a program to accelerate the digitalization of Oman’s economy, which is chiefly babelike connected lipid exports. Another mining halfway opened successful November 2022, costing 150 cardinal Omani rials ($389 million). In 2022, the energy prices for concern operators successful the state stood astatine 0.064 rials ($0.166) per kilowatt hour.

On July 27, the authorities of Oman launched a consultation paper connected a nationalist crypto framework. The model mightiness necessitate integer plus providers to found a section bureau successful Oman. It could besides oblige them to clasp a smaller fraction of assets successful blistery wallets, behaviour audits of safeguarded assets and amusement impervious of reserves.

Cointelegraph contacted the Omani Ministry of Transport, Communication and Information Technology and the Public Authority for Special Economic Zones and Free Zones but didn’t person a effect by publication. 

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