Add <datadir>/settings.json persistent settings storage.

Persistent settings are used in followup PRs #15936 to unify gui settings
between bitcoin-qt and bitcoind, and #15937 to add a load_on_startup flag to
the loadwallet RPC and maintain a dynamic list of wallets that should be loaded
on startup that also can be shared between bitcoind and bitcoin-qt.

src/bitcoind.cpp

@@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ static bool AppInit(int argc, char* argv[])
             }
         }
 
+        if (!gArgs.InitSettings(error)) {
+            InitError(Untranslated(error));
+            return false;
+        }
+
         // -server defaults to true for bitcoind but not for the GUI so do this here
         gArgs.SoftSetBoolArg("-server", true);
         // Set this early so that parameter interactions go to console