It would be difficult to complain about 2013 in respect to bitcoin's performance, adoption, attention, etc...  - except for maybe some of us who did not get in before the second bubble.. (but even I got in at the top of the bubble, and I am not complaining because I kind of already had a decent idea that there had already been a bubble)....

2013 was an amazing year for bitcoin by almost any measure, if you look at the calendar year, as a whole.

Starting the year from $15 to go to $260 and then to correct to below $100 to return to peaks of above $1100 and ending the year around $600...   Volatile, but still, not too shabby.