Weird. Really. Do you have non-empty wallet.dat in use? If so, let it sync without it. Please paste an output of
ps ux|grep 8bitd
ps ux|grep 8bitd
theo 7541 52.5 76.4 2219172 382296 ? SLsl 09:27 208:58 ./8bitd -daemon
theo 8632 0.0 0.1 14520 888 pts/1 S+ 16:04 0:00 grep --color=auto 8bitd
wallet.dat is just an empty wallet