The whole concept of BitBean seems pretty new and interesting. However, I've a few questions to ask before I start sprouting.
Does the sprouting takes heavy usage of CPU or GPU (or just the network usage)? What if I sprout with my GPU rig while it's mining something else? And according to SproutingCalculator, it's recommended to have 100,000 beans, can I just start with 15 to 20,000?
CPU usage seems to depend on how many stacks of coins which are separately trying to stake.
But it does read a lot of ram.
Networks usage depends on the number of connections, which you can set using maxconnections=10,15 or 250(whatever number you want) on beancash.conf.
You can try with 15 to 20K, but it will take really long time to get reward of 1000 coins.