To easily start a pruned Bitcoin Core node, have a look at https://cf.prunednode.today/
Verification is very easy through bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash but you will first need to download extra 129MB of coinstatsindex from any other full node and place it in ~/.bitcoin/indexes/coinstats/ directory.
The current gettxoutsetinfo muhash for be.anyone.eu.org full node can be seen at https://ln.uk.ms/bitcoin.html (search for "gettxoutsetinfo") or plain text of the same: https://ln.uk.ms/bitcoin.txt
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