I recommend that anyone following this thread read through the recent IRC exchange between Greg Maxwell and Luke Dashjr: http://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2019-04-04.html

The conversation starts on line 205 at 2019-04-04T02:54:50.

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 2:38 AM Jim Posen via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
Learning C++ is something within everyone's capability. Even people who do not
wish to learn it can hire someone to perform review for them.

Anyone with enough knowledge of C++ to audit the entire the Bitcoin Core codebase is more than capable of running it with assumeutxo disabled and checking the hard-coded vale themself.
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