As its name suggests, this spins the software equivalent of aroulettewheel to generate a random tree, then examines how snugly the branches of that tree fit the modern foliage.
In a world of multiple connections, where the distribution of future probabilities cannot be known (unlike the probabilities involved when spinning aroulettewheel), simple rules of thumb may be more useful than sophisticated models.
And they'd rather keep it safe even at one-one-hundredth of a percent interest in a cash account than risk losing it all on a roulette-wheel stock market.
And to get in on the action, investors are acting like gamblers in Macau, standing six-deep at the roulettewheel and throwing chips over the heads of those in front so that they land on a number on the table.