`banlist.dat` was introduced in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6310, storing nodes that were automatically banned (due to exceeding the misbehavior threshold) and manually banned (through the `setban` RPC).

Automatic bans were removed in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19219 and replaced with a discouragement filter. That filter is not saved to disk/persisted over shutdown/startup. The `banlist.dat` therefore now only contains addresses that have been banned through the `setban` rpc.

Since https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15935, we have a specific file for configuration that is updated through the RPC and persisted over shutdown/startup, namely `settings.json`. We should therefore move the manual ban configuration from `banlist.dat` to `settings.json`. Doing so has a couple of benefits:

- `settings.json` is human readable and easily analyzable by any json parser.
- we wouldn't need to maintain custom [de]serialization code for the `banlist.dat` file.

`banlist.dat` is expected to be fairly small and infrequently updated, so disk space/performance are not huge concerns.
#include <util/threadnames.h>
#include <util/time.h>
#include <util/translation.h>
#include <util/url.h>
#include <util/vector.h>
#include <validation.h>
#include <validationinterface.h>
#include <walletinitinterface.h>
#include <functional>
const std::function<std::string(const char*)> G_TRANSLATION_FUN = nullptr;
UrlDecodeFn* const URL_DECODE = nullptr;
FastRandomContext g_insecure_rand_ctx;
static FastRandomContext g_insecure_rand_ctx_temp_path;
static uint256 GetUintFromEnv(const std::string& env_name)
{
    const char* num = std::getenv(env_name.c_str());
    if (!num) return {};
    return uint256S(num);
}
void Seed(FastRandomContext& ctx)
{
    
    static uint256 seed{};
    static const std::string RANDOM_CTX_SEED{"RANDOM_CTX_SEED"};
    if (seed.IsNull()) seed = GetUintFromEnv(RANDOM_CTX_SEED);
    if (seed.IsNull()) seed = GetRandHash();
    LogPrintf("%s: Setting random seed for current tests to %s=%s\n", __func__, RANDOM_CTX_SEED, seed.GetHex());
    ctx = FastRandomContext(seed);
}
std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const uint256& num)