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Ko Ju-chun

葛如鈞

Member of the Legislative Yuan (Kuomintang)

TaiwanLawmaker

About

Ko Ju-chun (葛如鈞), widely known as Dr. Jaw (寶博士), holds a PhD in computer science and information engineering from National Taiwan University (2012) and was a postdoctoral researcher at Keio University's Graduate School of Media Design. He taught as an assistant professor in the Department of Interactive Design at National Taipei University of Technology and as an adjunct assistant professor at National Taiwan University. He also advised the Executive Yuan's virtual world regulatory adjustment project.

He has been a Kuomintang (KMT) at-large member of the Legislative Yuan since 1 February 2024 and sits on the Education and Culture Committee. He presents himself as a technology legislator, with a focus on AI, virtual assets and blockchain.

On 20 March 2026 he tabled a draft Virtual Asset Service Act with 19 co-sponsors. It was reviewed together with the Executive Yuan's bill, and the act passed its third reading on 30 June 2026. The act moves the sector from anti-money laundering registration to licensing. He has also pressed the government to count the bitcoin seized by judicial authorities, which it put at more than 210 as of 31 October 2025, and to consider bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset. He has called on the FSC to add staff for virtual asset supervision.

Policy engagement

Tabled a Virtual Asset Service Act draft with 19 co-sponsors in March 2026, reviewed alongside the Executive Yuan version and passed on 30 June 2026. Has pressed for FSC supervisory capacity and an audit of government-held bitcoin.

Source: Ko Ju-chun's office: Virtual Asset Service Act page

Key actions

  1. Said the new act's provision encouraging the government not to sell confiscated bitcoin was a first step towards accumulation, though not yet a formal national reserve policy.

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  2. The Virtual Asset Service Act, which merged his draft with the Executive Yuan's bill, passed its third reading in the Legislative Yuan.

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  3. Tabled a draft Virtual Asset Service Act with 19 co-sponsoring legislators.

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  4. Questioned the Premier and the central bank governor on a bitcoin strategic reserve and asked for an inventory of bitcoin seized by judicial authorities.

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