`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 <banman.h>
#include <fs.h>
#include <netaddress.h>
#include <test/fuzz/FuzzedDataProvider.h>
#include <test/fuzz/fuzz.h>
#include <test/fuzz/util.h>
#include <test/util/setup_common.h>
#include <util/system.h>
#include <cstdint>
#include <limits>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
namespace {
int64_t ConsumeBanTimeOffset(FuzzedDataProvider& fuzzed_data_provider) noexcept
{
    
    
    return fuzzed_data_provider.ConsumeIntegralInRange<int64_t>(std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::min(), std::numeric_limits<int32_t>::max());
}
} 
void initialize_banman()