There will always be negative events in any financial market. 'A Bad year for bitcoin' isn't defined purely by one or two negative events, or the fact that bitcoin values haven't grown as much as you would hope (which is still around 39% since January 1st - an above average result for any financial market).
Considering that bitcoin is becoming more widely accepted, 2016 could be seen as a success regardless of the change in bitcoin value - for example, you can now spend your bitcoin at Dunkin Donuts. This is a massive win for the acceptance of bitcoin into society.
Just because your expectations weren't met, doesn't mean it's a "bad" year already. There are a lot of other factors that needs to be given consideration and I can make a long list of it. See, this year, despite the finex event, actually is a good one because a lot happened and there was so much movement.
That's useless for commenting about the another person's expectation caused by, his are making that for himself and in fact like your site beside of the finex's cases, we know there are a lot of waves in bitcoin, like the price is increasing for a lot and get their stabilization until this time and i think if we are wanna seeing from the another perspective we will get a lot of answer for that. realize about the realistic will be better than dreaming about the expectation.