Taiwan Authorities to Explore Possibility of Including Bitcoin in Reserves

• MP Ju-Chun Ko said that the Taiwanese authorities will assess the possibility of including bitcoin in the reserves.
• The central bank will prepare a corresponding report by the end of 2025.
• This will reduce Taiwan’s dependence on the dollar.

Prime Minister Zho Rongtai and the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) will consider the possibility of including bitcoin in the currency reserves of the country. The announcement was made by Kuomintang Party lawmaker and computer science doctoral candidate Ju-Chun Ko.

The politician raised the issue during the Legislative Yuan session on November 11, 2025. Ko Ju-Chun expressed concern about the growing dependence of Taiwan’s economy on the U.S. dollar.

As of October 2025, Taiwan’s reserves were estimated at more than $602 billion, about 90 percent of which are U.S. dollars or derivative products, mostly U.S. Treasury bonds.

Ju-Chun Ko noted that this distribution makes Taiwan’s currency vulnerable to fluctuations in the U.S. economy. The politician therefore called on authorities to take an inventory of frozen and confiscated bitcoin, and to consider including the former cryptocurrency in reserves.

Prime Minister Jo Juntai and central bank governor Yang Chin-lung agreed to this. In particular, the regulator will prepare a report on the prospects of including the first cryptocurrency in the reserves by the end of 2025.

At the same time, it is assumed that bitcoin will not replace fiat and bonds, but will serve as a complement to them. As the basis of the reserve, Ju-Chun Ko proposed to use confiscated crypto-assets.

According to him, the initiative was supported by JAN3 and bitcoin maximalist Samson Mou.

Earlier, we reported that the proposal to create a bitcoin reserve for 430,000 BTC was made by lawmakers in France.