Same but they'll almost never admit to it at work.

That, essentially, is the issue. If you don't already know they play Magic, you won't know they play Magic.

Gambling, in most traditional forms, is seen as low-class and stupid, while in reality many, many people in this industry are compulsive gamblers.

That doesn’t match my experience at all. From backgammon to poker to sports gambling I’ve experienced way more positive bias towards gambling in tech jobs than negative.

Ditto. Maybe it's because I work in data science though. Stats nerds are in their element with games of chance.

It's called cryptocurrency.

That is what I was alluding to.